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EXERCISES 

AT THE 

SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 

OF THE FOUNDATION OF HAVERFORD SCHOOL IN 1833, 

AT 

HAVERFORD COLLEGE, 

TENTH MONTH 27, 1883, 
WITH THE ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE ALUMNI, 

TENTH MONTH 4-, 1SS4-, 
AND 

THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL COLLEGIAN 

OF THE 

IvOQANIAN SOCIETY. 



PHILADELPHIA : 

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CONTENTS. 



The Preparation, 7 

The Day, 9 

Exercises in Alumni Hall, 11 

Address of Welcome, President Chase, ... 11 

Annual Oration, John B. Garrett, ... 14 

Poem, Francis B. Gummere, . ol 

Presentation of Portrait, 37 

Exercises in the Evening, 39 

Kemarks, . . . Henry Hartshorne, Thomas Chase, James Tyson, Clement L. 

Smith, Francis T. King, Edward H. Magill, Pliny E. 

Chase, Henry Bettle, Augustus H. Reeve, 39 

Extracts from Letters, 51 

Appendix — Circulars of Invitation, 68 

Annual Oration, 18S4, Subject : " The Requirements of a Modern 

College Education," . . James Tyson, .... 75 



Semi-Cextenmal Celebration 



HAVERFORD COLLEGE. 



THE PREPAEATION. 

The project to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding 
of Haverford School had been a topic of interested discussion 
among former students for some time prior to the annual meeting 
of the Alumni Association, in 1881, at which time the matter 
took definite shape by the appointment of a committee of ten to 
consider the subject and report to the next annual meeting. This 
Committee then presented a report, containing a programme, 
which was adopted, although slightly modified afterward, and 
the Committee was continued to carry it out, in conjunction with 
the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association. The joint 
Committee had several meetings, and at an early one the Chair- 
man, Charles Roberts, appointed the following Sub-Committees : 

ON INVITATIONS AND ADVERTISEMENTS. 

Joseph Parrish, Chairman. 
President Thomas Chase, Edward C. Sampson, 

Isaac F. Wood, George Wood, 

Dr. James Carey Thomas, Edward .Bettle, Jr., 

Henry T. Coates. 

WAYS AND MEANS. 

Howard Comfort, Theodore Starr, . 

Walter Wood, Theodore H. Morris. 

PKOGEAMME AT HAVERFORD, INCLUDING POEM AND OTHER 
LITERARY MATTER. 

Professor Allen C. Thomas, Professor Pliny E. Chase, 

Edward P. Allinson. 

ATHLETIC SPORTS. 

Howard Comfort, William H. Haines, 

Henry Cope. 

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REFRESHMENTS AT HAVEKFOED. 

Henry Bettle, Philip C. Garrett, 

Roberts Vaux, Edward P. Alliuson, 

Joshua W. Lippiiicott, Joseph Parrish, 

Edward Starr, Benjainiu H. Lowry, 

Professor Ailea C. Thomas, Horace G. Lippincott, 

Howard M. Cooper. 

To three members of the Committee on Invitations and Ad- 
vertisements was referred the necessary and arduous tasl<: of 
making up a complete list of all former students, with tiieir 
present address, if living, and to note such as were deceased. 
This preliminary work was accomplished, after a great deal of 
effort, with the aid of interested friends in various parts of the 
country, old Haverfordians, and others. The success of their 
labors is seen in the list,* since published, which contains nine 
hundred and ninety-five names ; of these two hundred and 
twent3'-two are deceased. The small number concerning whom 
no information was obtained shows the care and success with 
\\'hich the work w-as done. 

The Committee on Ways and Means were also eminently suc- 
cessful in quietly raising the sum needed for the undertaking. 
The money came from willing givers, and among other indica- 
tions of the interest felt iu tlie event this ready liberality was 
especially noticeable. 

The Committee on the Programme at Plaverford, etc., attended 
to their duties in a manner that gave entire satisfiictiou. The Com- 
mittee on Athletic Sports achieved a plienomenal success. Their 
printed programme, which we believe is destined to become one 
of the curiosities of literature, at any rate of Haverfordiana, we 
print in the appendix. 

It may be added that such was tlie good feeling prevailing 
that even those invited to participate in cricket as "incompe- 
tents," did not resent the imputation, but played the noble game 

*This list, published under date of Third month 1st, 188-1, contains also 
the names and addresses of eiglity-one students on the College Kolls Tenth 
month 27th, ISSD. Total number of names on the list, one thousand and 
seventy-six. 



with what spirit they could. It is only justice to state that their 
heroic, and as appeared next day, self-sacrificing eiforts were 
witnessed with marked approval by many spectators. The fact 
that eiffht of the ten livinsr members of the first eleven of the 
Dorian Cricket Club were present and participated in the game 
speaks well for the healthfulness of cricket aud the love of crick- 
eters for their Alma Mater. 

The Committee on Refreshments at Haverford also deserve 
the commendation of their fellow-members. From the selection 
of the caterer, down through all the details of their work, includ- 
ing their careful attention to the wants of all guests, everything 
was well done and successful. It was the universal testimony 
that all the arrangements of the Committee were admirable, and 
the mid-day luncheon and the supper in the evening gave entire 
satisfaction. 

In this connection the thanks of the Alumni are due to the 
College officials, not forgetting the Mati-on, for the help afforded 
by them. 

Having thus briefly recounted the preparation for the day, 
we undertake now some description of the celebration. 



THE DAY. 



The day broke with reticent promise, overclouded, but with 
small sio:n of rain. While there were no showers there was no 
garish sunlight, but a Quaker sobriety and sedateness about the 
weather appropriate to the occasion, and it is only fair to add, to 
the season. The early trains brought to the College grounds 
members of the Alumni Committee, specially charged with the 
initial steps for the comfort and convenience of the guests. A 
"headquarters" Avas established in Barclay Hall, and arrange- 
ments made for the receipt by each visitor on arrival of the 
printed programme of the day's events — which it may be said 
here was followed to the letter, with a cheerful spontaneity far 
removed from any mere formal observance. Succeeding trains 
brought their tale of guests, ex-students, their wives and chil- 



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dren, and those invited either as neighbors and friends of the 
College or as connected with sister institutions, until, as is esti- 
mated, more than twelve hundred were strolling about the 
grounds, inspecting the buildings, or taking part actively or 
passively in the various exercises, athletic, intellectual, or gusta- 
.tory. Early in the day two wickets were pitched, one for the 
use of those most disrespectfully described in the programme as 
" incompetents," the other for proficient students, and such 
ex-students as had " kept up " their cricket ; and until dusk 
with but little cessation the games went on, the "incompetents" 
speedily abandoning the rule that they should be fed with 
underhand bowling only, and bravely facing the powerful (if 
not inevitably accurate) artillery of the " round arm." Games 
of lawn-tennis and a base-ball match went on simultaneously 
during the morning hours. Just before noon a flag presented 
to the students by ladies of Philadelphia and Baltimore, 
gorgeous in scarlet and black, and inscribed " Haverford," was 
raised on the flag-staff on the cricket ground, replacing the old 
Dorian standard. At one o'clock the well-remembered bell 
gave the signal for luncheon, which was served by Andrew F. 
Stevens, caterer, and made substantial provision for the later 
occupations of the day. The whole of the first floor of Found- 
ers' Hall was devoted to this agreeable interlude. After lunch- 
eon as many persons as could be hurriedly summoned, several 
hundred in number, formed a group at the front of Barclay Hall, 
and a remarkably successful photograph was the result. At half- 
past two an exhibition game of Rugby foot-ball was played — 
the contestants being undergradutes — to the great satisfaction of 
hundreds of on-lookers. At half-past three the Alumni exercises 
(elsewhere described) were had before an overflowing audience 
in Alumni Hall. At dusk supper was served in Founders' 
Hall, and after long discussion thereof, amply warranted by 
its merits, the participants gathered on the terrace in front of 
the old building illuminated by the electric lights distributed 
over the campus, and an informal meeting was held presided 
over by Dr. Hartshorne, President of the Alumni Association, 
at wliich several letters of regret were read, followed by 
addresses from many invited guests, members of the Association, 



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and ex-students and undergraduates of the College. (A synopsis 
of their remarks appears elsewhere.) The dawning of the day 
of rest was perilously near when the last guest departed. 

In fine, the celebration was a perfect success. Though the 
■sun shone but fitfully, there were bright faces shining with 
a kindlier human light. Friends, some of whom had not looked 
upon each other for well-nigh half a century, clasped hands 
again — groups of contemporaries dotted the lawns, each man 
■vying with the other in fond recallings ; children sought the 
.ancient haunts of their fathers, and the old rooms rang with 
jtheir laughter. But the occasion was not without a deeper 
significance. Haverford men who had known their College 
■only in the day of small things, saw with amazement how in 
:fifty years under cautious, conservative, and wise management 
•she had grown in every department, material and intellectual, 
•into the vigor and presence of a strong and healthy adolescence, 
and left her beautiful lawns with a renewed affection for and 
■pride in their Alma Mater, — a revived memory for her Past, a 
more assured hope for her Future. 



EXERCISES IN ALUMNI HALL. 

At half-past three in the afternoon Alumni Hall was crowded 
to its utmost, and a number of visitors were still without its 
doors. After a few moments of impressive silence, and vocal 
thanksgiving and prayer offered by Dr. James Carey Thomas, 
the President of the Alumni Association, Dr. Henry Hartshorne, 
opened the meeting. Then followed 

PRESIDENT CHASE'S ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

I count myself very happy that the most delightful duty has 
been assigned me of welcoming you all to this great festival ; a 
privilege for which I am doubtless indebted to my official posi- 
.tion, and, the fact that I have been connected with Haverford 
■College, for a longer time than any other person who lived on 
.these grounds. was ever connected with it in any office. 



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I welcome with peculiar pleasure the representatives of the 
first classes that studied and graduated here in the '30's and 
'40's ; for Haverford showed her high quality in the very begin- 
ning, and never has she sent forth worthier sons into the world 
than these her earliest born. You bring with you a rich store 
of memories. Amid all the changes and improvements which 
liave been made, you find much that will aid yovi in calling up 
the past. The same hall of the founders in which you lived and 
studied, still stands unchanged in its exterior. Behind it, though 
with some gaps made by time, still rises the venerable wood, 
amidst whose branches you built seats ; and from the portico in 
front you still look down a vista that reminds one of Versailles, 
toward the distant Delaware and the hills beyond. We welcome 
you with sincere respect as men who have done honor to the 
teachings of your old school by your lives of integrity, useful- 
ness, and high distinction, furnishing worthy examples for the 
imitation of your successors in all future time. 

With equal heartiness I welcome those who were here in the 
middle period of the history of this College, the years between 
its re-opening in 1848 and my own coming hither in 1855. In 
the full vigor of your powers, occupying many places of great 
prominence, influence, and trust, you form a very interesting- 
portion of our Alumni, and in you the College boasts some of 
its brightest ornaments. 

Let me thank you for the brotherly regard and sympathy I 
have always received from you, and let me bear witness to the aid 
you have always been ready to give to any plans which had the 
good and prosperity of Haverford as their aim. 

And you, my own pupils, who make up considerably more 
than four-fifths of the graduates of this institution, and some six 
hundred and thirty of the one thousand and forty students who 
had been here before our last commencement, no words can tell 
the joy with which I greet you. The historian Gibbon once said 
that it was the sad lot of a teacher to feel all a parent's anxieties 
and receive none of a parent's rewards. Far, very far, has this 
been from being the case with me and with you. I will not 
deny that I have had and have anxieties, but they are chiefly 
such as parents have for the most promising and the most dutiful 



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of sons ; and I am constantly rewarded for any service I may have 
been able to give you by the noble qualities you have shown in 
the busy world on which you have entered, by your virtues and 
your well-deserved success ; I am constantly rewarded as I 
recount the many proofs you have given me of your affection, 
and think how surely I can rely on your sympathy and your 
love. Be sure that so long as my heart beats in my bosom it 
will beat in sympathy with all your joys and successes and with 
all your sorrows. 

Students of Haverford College, both past and present, both 
old and young : You constitute a body of whom I can never 
think Avithout enthusiasm and to whom I cannot speak without 
emotion. You, the living epistle and proof of the worth of Haver- 
ford, in whom have been largely fulfilled the prayers and aspira- 
tions of its founders, and who bear witness in your daily lives to 
the efficacy of its religious, moral, intellectual, and physical 
training : welcome one and all to your old College on this happy 
day ! I was about to say a day of unmixed happiness ; but there 
is one thought which, while it casts no gloom over us, tempers 
our joy — the proud, sad memory of our sainted dead. What 
names are those we miss as we call our roll to-day ! To speak 
only of pupils of my own, such names as those of Edward Ehoads, 
and George Sampson, and Richard Chase, and Richard Thomas 
Jones, and Marmaduke Kimber, and Thomas Longstreth, and 
Alexis Cope ; and I might mention others of equal worth, both in 
recent and in older classes. I sometimes think death has taken our 
best and noblest ; but as I look over the roll of the living, I see how 
many of them are worth}' of the same praise and honor that we 
give to these, and I say: It is the race we breed here; such is the 
noble stock of Haverford. 

But I must not forget the most charming part of this audience, 
first in all our hearts, the mothers and sisters, who tell from what 
homes our Alumni came ; the wives and daughters, who tell 
what homes they have made for themselves : we welcome your 
presence as the crowning grace of our festival. 

And now, before we invite you to the intellectual feast, which 
has been provided through the wise care of the Committee of the 
Alumni to whom we all owe so much, let me say one word on 



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the character of this College. Lord Coleridge, speaking on this' 
platform ten days ago, bade us cherish the honorable traditions 
and associations which have already clustered around the name 
of Haverford. , Of these none are more conspicuous, none more 
noble, and none, I trust, will be cherished more carefully by us 
and our successors than her love for whatever is frank in speech 
and straightforward in action, and simple, high, and earnest in 
human character ; in short, for whatsoever things are true, and 
honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report. 



The orator of the day, John B. Garrett, of the class of 1854, 
then delivered the following 

ADDRESS. 

Fellow Alumni, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

Fifty years have now passed since the doors of yonder hall 
were first thrown open to students, and Haverford School com- 
menced the work it had assumed to do. So commonplace have 
anniversary celebrations become of late, that we might well 
shrink from the observance of this occasion did it not so impress 
our minds, and stir within us deep feelings, reviving pleasant 
memories and evoking glorious hopes, that we dare not deny 
ourselves its pleasures nor withhold from thee, our Alma Mater, 
the tribute that is thy due. We come, not only to deck thy 
brow with well-earned chaplet, but recognizing that so many of 
us — thy sons — have attained the full strength of manhood, we 
come with open heart and hand to enter into sympathy with 
thee, and to promote thy work, thy life, thy mission. 

How long, and yet how short, these fifty years ! Compared 
with the century of our nation's life recently completed, and 
made the occasion of the peaceful commingling of representative 
men from all quarters of the earth, with the two centuries of the 
Commonwealth within whose borders we are met, with the his- 
tory of the Anglo-Saxon race, of all whose glories we boast as 
our own, or of the Christian world, of whose life Haverford and 
its life are a part, and whose nineteenth century is almost com- 



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pleted — compared with these, how short ! But to us, liow much ! 
to most of us, more than our life : and in a sense to each of us, 
his own life is all that he can span, and is the standard by which 
he measures other lives. Yet more, these fifty years are more 
than any other of this world's history, save those to which all 
prophecy pointed, and in the fresh memory of which all Chris- 
tendom delights to dwell. A half century in which the nations 
of the earth have been brought within conversational reach of 
one another, and in which the march of human progress has 
been unparalleled. They are not to be measured simply as the 
half of a century, or even the mathematical proportion of any 
longer period. In 1833, the total population of the United 
States was but about fourteen millions. It has increased nearly 
fourfold. • That of the State of Pennsylvania, which had been 
settled by Penn one hundred and fifty years previously, was but 
one-third what it is to-day. Railways existed rather in engineers' 
contemplation than in fact, for though the rails had been laid in 
the narrow pass which bounds these grounds upon the north, 
horse-power was the motor of the time. Anthracite coal was but 
in the early stages of use as domestic fuel. Photography had 
not yet lent its assistance to the scientist, the artist, or manufac- 
turer. The submarine cables which now acquaint us at the 
breakfast table with each day's good and evil thought and action 
on the world's continents, were not ; nor even the land wires 
which to-day render their efficient aid in mercantile transactions 
of almost every class. Much less was the power known of con- 
versing audibly and intelligibly, in natural tones, with our 
friends a hundred miles away. These United States were but 
an infant nation, barely respected beyond the seas, dependent in 
every emergency of trade upon the capital of foreign money 
centres. The whole estate of Stephen Girard, who died in 1831, 
reputed the richest man in America, was represented by figures 
in which the railway magnates and mining kings of to-day count 
their annual incomes or profits. London and Amsterdam look 
askance at the till recently unparalleled spectacle of the current 
value of money being less for weeks or months together in the 
financial centre of the New World than with them, and the 
national credit of the United States surpassing that of the most 



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favored borrowers of tlie Old Woidd. Nor would any picture of 
thislialf century approach completeness that omitted mention of the 
culmination of the colossal struggle between the advocates and oppo- 
nents of the extension of human slavery — a civil war ^vhich is esti- 
mated to have cost the nation, directly and indirectly, nearly a mil- 
lion lives and nine thousand million dollars, which entailed upon 
society North and South, East and West, habits of idleness and 
dissipation, but which in the providence of God was instrumen- 
tal in adding four millions to the freemen of America, and in 
removing the foulest blot upon our nation's fame, which estab- 
lished our national integrity, and caused the resources and power 
of the United States to be respected by all the aristocracies and 
democracies of other continents. How much of power, how 
much of responsibility, how much, alas ! of danger, attaches to 
the new order of things which the revolution of the past half 
century has created, who can tell, or dare contemplate ? 

Nor has Haverford failed of its changes during this iDeriod. 
All must x'egret that so few can be with us to-day who can pic- 
ture from memor}' the Haverford of 1833, when the band of 
twenty-one first gathered at the master's call. Yonder building, 
now known as Founders' Hall, alone graced these grounds. A 
small space on its north side and the adjoining grove were its only 
lawn. The red earth from the foundations was the adornment 
on the south, where the eyes of us of later boyhood are accus- 
tomed to graceful terraces and shaded walks. In tlie open space 
beneath the piazza hands and faces were washed, though wintry 
snows were not excluded, and brushes and towels were often 
frozen stiff. Some among us will recall the sight of the first 
locomotive engine which traversed the rails; how it stopped to 
fill its boiler by buckets from the rivulet which runs through 
the embankment just east of the lawn, and how farmers, laborers, 
and scholars swarmed about it with curious interest, and fled 
with alarm when its whistle was unexpectedly blown. The site 
of the school was selected in part because of its purely rural 
character, its protection against the bustle and distraction of city 
life. Now it is within about a half hour's reach of the heart of 
Philadelphia, and from witliin its very precincts men daily pur- 
sue their avocations in the citv and return to refresh both mind 



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and body among these classic groves. Undergraduates of to-day 
■would cliafe under the restrictions which bound us of earlier 
years to seclusion for five consecutive months, and under the 
regulations which enforced continuous study throughout the 
summer's heat and ignored those days in the year's calendar 
which are so generally observed within as without the Society of 
Friends as days of thanksgiving, memorials, and family re- 
unions. The midnight oil of the student was sperm or lard, 
dimly burning, rather than the refined product of the earth's 
flowing wells, lighting his path to success and distinction. All 
these are pleasant memories, but there are profounder ques- 
tions we naturally and properly ask on such an anniversary as 
this. 

What part is Haverford playing in this march of human pro- 
gress ? What Avas, what is, its raison d'ttre f How far has it 
fulfilled its purpose ? and what are our just hopes of its future? 
Orgauized by one branch of the Christian Church and its man- 
agement confined Avithin its limits, none will question it had in 
part a denominational purpose — the education of those of the 
founders' faith, and the wider spread throughout the community 
of tliose views of Divine truth, those aspects of Christian life, 
which they embraced and practiced. And yet it had no jjroselyt- 
ing purpose. The inspiration which called our Alma Mater into 
life followed so closely that sad division in the Society of Friends 
which crippled its strength and influence, not yet fully regained, 
that we must naturally associate its organization with the con- 
viction in the minds of its founders that that division was in 
measure due to want of knowledge (and, we may assume, espe- 
cially Scriptural knowledge) and neglect of mental culture, which 
knowledge and culture Plaverford School was designed to impart 
and promote. They recognized that as without instructing him 
the parent had not fulfilled his duty to the child, nor the State 
to the citizen, neither had the Church fulfilled its duty to its 
members without their instruction, and that if they were to grow 
up in unison with it — to be in their turn its standard-bearers, and 
to exemplify the Christian morality which they regarded as es- 
sential to the welfare of the individual, the State, and the Church 
— their natural faculties must be developed, they must be edu- 
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cated, iu the most literal and noblest sense of that word. The 
best that was in them must bo educed, and to this end, truth, 
not error, must be imparted. Models of wisdom, of sti-ength, of 
rounded culture, must be ever before them. Calling into our 
presence to-day the memories of the past — measuring character 
not by boyish whims and prejudices, but with the juster estimate 
of the imperfection of human character which comes with more 
intimate acquaintance with the only perfect humanity, that of 
our Divine Exemplar — may we not rejoice with reverent thank- 
fulness and honest pride that Haverford in every stage of her 
history has presented such guides and such examples ? Behold 
upon her escutcheon, in letters of gold, the honored names of 
Guminere, the elder and younger, Hilles, Smith, Yarnall, Har- 
lan ! and I leave to men of successive epochs the pleasant task 
of completing the list as reverent memories of their several in- 
structors may prompt. Bitter and sweet, light and shade, so 
raincrle in the living present that, like new wine, it often lacks 
the piquancy and flavor of the old. But I dare not, while bear- 
ing tribute to honored friends of the past who have been called 
hio-her and received the "well done" which their work on earth 
so richly merited, withhold just tribute to the living. With a 
more or less intimate acquaintance with Haverford life for over 
thirty years, and with opportunities for closer observation than 
most during the recent few, I here state my conviction that the 
Faculty of 1883 is not the peer only, but the superior of any of 
its predecessors within my knowledge ; that iu scholarship, 
in generous culture, in power to teach, in moral attributes, in 
that love which seeks to bestow the best gifts with which they 
have been themselves endowed, they make the Haverford of 
to-day richer and stronger than ever before. And herein is our 
hope! 

Let us look deeper into the purposes of Haverford's founda- 
tion. Of the men named in its original charter, of those who 
subscribed to its early announcements, of those who composed 
its first board of management, not one survives. All, all are 
gone ! But their work abides, and their published purposes and 
acts. These are our chart. The following extract from the 
first report of the managers to the contributors, made nearly 



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two years before the opening of the school, will illustrate the 
conscientious care with whicli they entered upon their duties, 
the fruits of which it is our privilege to enjoy. 

" Immediately after their appointment, a committee was 
charged with the care of procuring a suitable farm for locating 
the school. This committee diligently attended to their duty, 
and examined every place offered for sale, within ten miles of 
the city, that was at all likely to answer the purpose. The diffi- 
culties in the way of our being suited, were however great, and 
seemed for many months insuperable. We wished to procure a 
farm in a neighborhood of unquestionablesalubrity, within a short 
distance of a Friends' Meeting, of easy access from this city at 
all seasons of the year, at the same time that it furnished facilities 
for bathing, and was recommended by the beauty of the scenery 
and a retired situation. Many farms, highly eligible in some of 
these respects, but wanting in others, were presented to our 
notice from time to time, and claimed the attention of the 
managers. The only one which united the suffrages of the 
whole Board, is a farm which has recently been offered to us, 
and which we have since purchased for tlie sum of seventeen 
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. It is an oblong 
tract of one hundred and ninety-three and a half acres,* lying 
on both sides of the Haverford road, near the ten-mile stone, 
and extending from that road to the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
being nearly south of the eight-mile stone on the Lancaster 
turnpike. There are about twenty acres of woodland, distributed 
in small groves, well adapted for ornamental cultivation. The 
soil is a light sandy loam, easily cultivated, and a pai't is in very 
good condition. It is well watered. * * * There is water 
power, * * it is thought, sufficient to raise water to the highest 
spot on the farm. There are, in addition, two fine springs of 
water. Thereis,also,aquarry ofgoodbuildingstone. The grounds 
slope to the south and southeast, and leave little to be desired 
on the score of beautiful scenery or eligibility for building." 
How amply has the test of fifty years proved the wisdom of 
their choice. 

*By a subsequent purcliase or donation, the area of the farm was increased 
to two liundred and sixteen acres. 



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In the Fifth month, 1833, a few months prior to the opening, 
an elaborate and masterly address to Friends was issned by the 
managers, presenting both the grounds for establishing such a 
school, and their views of the education demanded. It is but 
just that these views should be received by their successors in 
their exact language, which it gives me the more pleasure to 
quote because of the singular grace and force with which they 
wrote. 

" In the first place," they say, " we do not aim so much 
to make brilliant scholars of our pupils, as to turn out well- 
instructed, serious, reflecting, and useful men. The acquisition 
of knoAvledge, valuable for its own sake, is chiefly to be prized 
as the means by wdiich incomparably more important objects — 
the cultivation of the mental powers, and the formation of cor- 
rect principles and habits — are to be attained. Education in this 
most comprehensive sense is the business of life, commencing 
in infancy and carried on in rightly governed minds to old age. 
That portion of it which devolves upon tutors must, to be valu- 
able, have reference to this great end of the formation of char- 
acter, and must be modified in its details by the peculiar mental 
constitution of the individual and his prospects in life. In 
laying the foundation of -a good education those parts of the 
multifarious mass of human knowledge must be selected, the 
study of which is most strengthening to the faculties, and the 
application most useful in the affairs of life. * * * It should 
not be objected that the course of study we have laid down is 
suitable only as a preparation for the literary professions, and 
that it can be of little use to men in the more mechanical and 
laborious occupations. If its chief value consist in this, that it 
strengthens the faculties, forms habits of patient thought and 
steady perseverance, and establishes in the mind just methods of 
reasoning, these are of great value in every sphere of life ; and 
although the studies during the pursuit of which they were 
acquired may be neglected or forgotten amidst the cares and 
duties of manhood, the mind will retain the impression which 
it has received, as soils will retain the marks of fertilizing 
growth for years after it has moldered away." 

The limits of an address appropriate to such an occasion as 



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this compel the omission of the analytical treatment of the rela- 
tive value of the study of pure mathematics, the natural 
sciences, and the ancient and modern languages. To those in- 
terested in the science of education, and especially to those 
engaged in the conduct of our schools, whether as instructors or 
committee-men, I commend this address of those to whom we 
owe so much, for attentive perusal. 

What was the peculiar phase of religious belief which here 
sought expression, and with which Haverford education was to 
accord? A simple faith in Jesus Christ as the incarnate Son of 
God, the Redeemer and personal Saviour of men — a worship of 
God the Father and the Son, individual and spiritual, without 
human intervention — the discarding of rites and ordinances as 
non-essential to salvation or L)ivine favor under the Christian 
dispensation — the indwelling and immediate guidanceof the Holy 
Spirit in the individual believer — and the acceptance of every law 
of human conduct announced by Christ as an ever-present con- 
tinual personal obligation. Such has been and is the high stand- 
ard of Haverford's teaching. It is in no spirit of boasting, or 
of odious comparison, that we claim that no other educational 
institution of our laud of equal literary grade has approached so 
nearly to this standard. Witness the large proportion of her 
sous who have maintained and proclaimed the like faith before 
the world. Witness the part taken by not a few in the uplifting 
of the lately liberated race in our Southern States, and in the 
Christian civilization of the aborigines of our land. Witness 
the action of her Alumni five years ago in oiFering to the world a 
premium for the best essay on the most effective substitute for 
the sword in the settlement of international disputes. Witness 
the recent declaration of her President that, so far as he knew, 
her undergraduates were then free from the use of intoxicating 
drinks. Few of Haverford's sons have ever disgraced her. 
They have generally led honest and honorable lives. They have 
made their mark in the business world and professional life, and 
many have become wise educators of succeeding generations. 
We may not point to a long array of names prominent in diplom- 
acy or statesmanship, though Haverford's sons are by no means 
strangers to legislative halls, but we can point with honest pride 



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to much self-sacrificing, intelligent, and fruitful effort among 
them to improve local government and the civil service of the 
nation, to ameliorate the sufferings of mankind, to remove pauper- 
ism, to lift to a higher i)lane of thought and living those Avho are 
fallen and degraded — in a word, to forward the march of liuman 
progress and of free institutions. And for the will, as well as 
for the ability to do this, such owe much to Haverford training 
and to the spirit which pervades her life. 

When Haverford School commenced its work, it was essentially 
a college — that is, it aimed at a broad and generous instruction 
in classical and modern literature, the higher" mathematics, and 
the sciences ; and to fit its students either for immediate entrance 
upon professional or mercantile life, with minds prepared and 
tastes cultivated for private study and literary enjoyments, or for 
the profounder systematic study of specialties Avhich belongs to 
the university or technical school. A preparatory department 
supplemented the collegiate, for in the earlier years of Haver- 
ford's history very few schools in the Society of Friends were 
sufliciently advanced, systematic in their courses, and thorough? 
to fit pupils for entrance into distinctively college classes. The 
narrow financial basis on which it was founded was a still greater 
embarrassment and peril, and in the autumn of 1845 its mana- 
gers were compelled to succumb to the exigencies of an accumu- 
lating load of debt, and closed the institution for an indefinite 
period. But the value of its work had been proven, and Hav- 
erford's own children were already too numerous, capable, and 
energetic to permit its advantages to be lost to their successors. 
Mainly through their efforts it was re-opened in the spring of 
1848, and has since prosecuted its work uninterruptedly. Other 
years passed before it responded to the manifestly prevalent 
opinion of its best friends and patrons that if it would command 
that support which was essential to the accomplishment of its 
highest purpose, it must adopt the name as well as the curricu- 
lum of a College, and must recognize accomplished work by con- 
ferring collegiate degrees. In 1856 the change was effected, and 
Haverford promptly took a recognized place among American 
colleges. I will not claim that its work has ever been so 
advanced or varied as that of Harvard, the oldest and most 



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honored of the colleges of our land ; but the welcome accorded 
to Plaverford's sous at that ancieutseat of learning, their admis- 
sion to its Senior class upon the diploma of the classical course 
of this College without examination, and still more the hio-h 
average of scholarship attained by these men under Harvard's 
training, show how closely has this standard been approached, 
and attest also the thoroughness of Haverford's work. And it 
is with no disparagement of kindred institutions througliout our 
land that we claim a special relationship with old Harvard, for 
our President is her honored son, while Harvard's dean is a 
Haverford alumnus, in whom his Alma Mater has just pride- 
Each is the gainer by the interchange. The selection of our 
own graduates as instructors is but natural, and within certain 
limits advantageous, but dependence upon these alone is certain 
to limit resources, to produce narrowness, to dwarf what might 
otherwise be a vigorous life. 

" Keep all thy native good, and 
Naturalize all forain of that name." 

President Cattell, of Lafayette College, in a recent letter to an 
officer of Haverford, wrote : " I wish, indeed, we could claim 
the good Avork you have done ; not to detract from your deserved 
reputation, but to add to what we may have secured by our own 
work. I speak honestly as well as frankly when I say that 
every college man in Pennsylvania (I ought to widen the area), 
honors the thorough work done at Haverford, and is proud 
of it." 

In comparing Haverford with kindred institutions, let us 
never blind ourselves to its unquestionable superiority to most 
in the opportunity for development of physical health and 
strength. Most colleges, in our Eastern States at least, are situ- 
ated in centres of population. City surroundings not only 
present many diversions to the youthful mind, but forbid the 
maintenance of such ample grounds as facilitate out-door exer- 
cise and healthful study. These Haverford possesses in unusual 
degree. A lawn of sixty acres, laid out with taste, planted with 
such variety of trees and shrubbery as few American lawns, 
public or private, can boast, with nearly a half-century's growth 



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now attained, is certainly no mean possession. The continuous 
residence upon the college grounds here afforded students, and 
the regular habits promoted by it, are large factors in the acqui- 
sition of learning, and in the ability to use it when gained. The 
testimony furnished me by one of our Alumni, also a graduate of 
Harvard College and of two medical schools, in reference to his 
own health experiences when a student here, is so pertinent that 
I venture to quote it : " When I went to Haverford," he writes, 
"I was undersized for my age, about fourteen, thin and deli- 
cate. I had little or no inclination for exercise or games, and a 
short walk was all that I could undertake. My first year was 
not a very great success, but during my Sophomore year the 
constant and steadily increasing improvement in health I have 
always regarded as prodigious. The gain in weight during sev- 
eral months of the year was about five pounds, making a total of 
quite thirty pounds. My growth in height— I remember it well 
by the extra vacation obtained — necessitated my return home at 
both mid-terms to receive an extension of trousers. My height 
was exceeded by only about six or ten boys in college. It was a 
transition from the front bench to the back one. During the 
remaining year I continued to gain, winning about fifteen or 
twenty pounds, and weighing when I went to Harvard, in 1864, 
about one hundred and fifty-five. This record speaks for itself 
of the advantages of regulated hours, plenty of food and sleep, 
out-door life and cricket offered by a Haverford life to one not 
naturally strong." 

Doubtless a similar testimony, in character if not in degree, 
could be borne by many among us. Lives have been lengthened 
and enriched by our residence within these charming precincts. 

We have traversed and enjoyed the fairer side of our picture 
of the past and present of Haverford, but let us not deceive our- 
selves. Beautiful and health-giving as are these academic lawns, 
successful as have been the efforts to instill into the minds of stu- 
dents sound learning, and to awaken the best instincts of intellec- 
tual life, meritorious as has been the authorship of professors past 
and jJresent, and justly recognized as has been the original work of 
the College Observatory, it is but just, it is but politic, to acknowl- 
edge that our attainments are far short of our ideal. The science 



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of education is ever advancing. If we would keep abreast of the 
age in the methods and scope of college training, we must be ever 
alert, ever receptive, ever studious. The tendency of the age is 
clearly toward larger liberty in the election of studies, and toward 
the closer division of work, and the emjoloyment of highl}^ trained 
specialists. This last is not only calculated to promote more accu- 
rate scholarship, but sets before the student examples of enthusi- 
astic devotion in various fields of learning, and stimulates the 
thirst for knowledge. It gives a wider acquaintance with literary 
and scientific men. It broadens the base upon which scholarship 
is builded. It enables the student to estimate more accurately his 
tastes and caj^abilities. 

To what extent Haverford shall avail herself of such instru- 
mentalities depends, more than aught else, upon the practical 
extent of your symjaathy, my hearers, with her enlarged and 
ever- enlarging work. More undergraduates are now upon her 
roster than ever before, the present Freshman class is the largest 
yet known in her history, and if repeated in each of the three 
succeeding years, would swell the aggregate beyond the limits of 
present accommodations. The circle of those who have drank at 
her springs is ever widening, and her reputation for thorough 
instruction, accurate scholarship, and healthful moral influence 
doubtless extending, and these may ensure the continued supply 
of students, and the maintenance or increase of the resultant 
revenue. But higher institutions of learning are not, cannot be, 
self-sustaining. A charge to students of the actual cost of their 
maintenance and instruction — including even the lowest equiv- 
alent for the capital invested for their benefit — would drive from 
our College a large proportion of its patrons. It would certainly 
narrow the scope of its usefulness and in great measure nullify 
the efforts of its founders. It would, in all probability reduce, 
rather thau increase, its net revenue, and so promote financial 
embarrassment. On the contrary, it has ever been the desire of 
those intrusted with its management to extend the privileges of 
Haverford's training among many whose pecuniary resources 
will not permit the payment of even present charges, and es- 
pecially to the best students of Friends' schools througliout the 
country, upon most of whom distant x'esidence entails additional 



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burdens. The endowment of competitive scholarships available 
for these would be a great boon. 

During the past five years, with close scrutiny of current ex- 
penses, there has been an average annual deficiency of revenue 
in excess of the income of all funds applicable to general uses, 
and to scholarships, of six thousand dollars. Friends of the 
College have shown tiie sincerity and depth of their friendship 
by replacing year by year, a large part of this deficiency; but the 
success of so important an institution should not be dependent, 
in never so small a degree, upon uncertainties. Capitalized on 
the basis of an annual income of five per cent., this deficiency 
represents one hundred and twenty thousand doUais, a sum 
which should undoubtedly be added to the general endowment 
of the College. 

At the opening of the school in 1833, it was announced by 
the managers that " By the kindness of several individuals, a 
cabinet of specimens in natural history and other objects of 
curiosity has been formed without expense to the institution, 
amounting to about two thousand articles." There have since 
been many valuable additions to this collection ; yet the museum 
has not fully kept pace with our progress in other respects, nor 
can it ever fulfill its part as an instructor, or invite contributions, 
until granted a home attractive in appearance, easy of access, 
and adapted to systematic classification and to expansion. Such 
a building might fitly complete the College quadrangle, three 
sides of which are now inclosed by Barclay, Founders', and 
Alumni Halls.* 

The present curriculum provides for less instruction in certain 
branches of Natural History, notably Geology, Botany, Zoology, 
than the times demand. The endowment of a chair of Natural 
History, or still better its equivalent in three, requiring a portion 
only of the time of each professor, or in corresponding lecture- 
ships, is therefore another of the needs of the day. 

Now, as never before, does the public service of our country 

* Further consideration satisfies me that the location suggested would not 
be proper unless the building were placed at such distance as to insure the 
free passage of air and sunshine, and not to obstruct the views from the piazza 
of Founders' Hall.— J. B. G. 



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demand men trained in all those laws of economy of resources 
which concern the health, physical, social, financial, of our 
nation and local communities. And every college should bear 
its share in their education. Ilaverford is in some respects 
peculiarly fitted to assume it. Not a few of her sons are to-day 
actively engaged in unofficial public service, where such a train- 
ing would have vastly increased their power. Let those of the 
future, then, reap tlie advantage of the early foundation of a 
Professorship of Civil and Political Science. 

lu a religious society discarding theological training as the 
prerequisite or resultant of a call to the ministry of the gospel 
of Christ, and recognizing the possibility of a Divine call upon 
any baptized Christian at any period of life, is there not a 
special need that all of its members should be thoroughly 
grounded in biblical literature and exegesis — and can this be 
secured except through the establishment of another distinct 
professorship ? In harmony with this thought, I quote the fol- 
lowing sentences from the managers' address of 1833, already 
alluded to : " Tiie external evidences of the truth of revealed 
religion are as proper a subject of investigation as any question 
in science. If true, they must be able to withstand, as they 
ever have done, the severest scrutiny. They form, in fact, the 
most irresistible weight of proof wiiich has ever been brought 
to bear upon anj^ question of a moral nature. Not to make 
the youthful mind acquainted with the Avonderful train of 
events, the prophecies and tlieir fulfillment, the undesigned 
and almost miraculous proofs of the truth of holy writ by 
profane and infidel writers, the confirmation by natural and 
moral revolutions, which this investigation opens, is to shut 
out one of the noblest views which the Almighty has vouch- 
safed to us of the course of His providence." 

Each of these three professorships calls for an endowment of 
at least fifty thousand dollars. 

I am by no means insensible to the great advantage of an 
untrammeled endowment. One generation cannot wisely direct 
another. Invention, discovery, mental development determine 
in each succeeding age changes which cannot be foreseen. A 
life estate is all that under Divine laws any man can have in 



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earthly possessions. " We brought nothing into this world, 
and it is certain we can carry nothing out." Well may we 
question, therefore, the wisdom of attaching conditions to gifts ; 
yet each must judge for himself, and act conscientiously in the 
appropriation of his means. We may easily conceive that one 
particularly interested in the foundation of either of the three 
professorships here proposed might have little interest in the 
others, and rather than actively promote their creation might 
seek other channels for his beneficence. We can only urge that 
no unneccessary limitations may be imposed by any, and that 
an ultimate diversion to the general purpose of a sound educa- 
tion may be permitted to those who must be the judges of the 
future. Were all the additions to Haverford's endowment 
which I have outlined promptly made, we should still have 
much less at command than our neighbor at Bryn Mawr, whose 
advantages the young women about us are soon to enjoy. 

Occasional lectures, singly or in courses, by men of power, so 
occupied in other fields of educational, literary, or other work as 
to preclude their more permanent engagement here, have of late 
been used with marked success in imparting instruction and 
stimulating intellectual activity in the student. Variety is 
always attractive to the young. The personal presence of men 
of distinction and just reputation excites in them a commend- 
able ambition. It is the living illustration of the capabilities of 
the human mind. Who that has had the privilege of extensive 
travel at home or abroad will not attest the value of instruc- 
tion so obtained, as supplementing that of atlases, globes, and 
text-books ? So the personal illustration spoken of is to many 
pupils a speedier and surer lesson than many an hour of quiet 
study of books. What undergraduate of recent years fails to 
recall with some pleasurable emotion such visits to Haverford 
as those of James Hack Tuke, the intelligent student of Ire- 
land's wrongs and effective advocate of the removal of their 
causes ; of Thomas Hughes, the admiring pupil of Doctor Arnold 
endeared to the American schoolboy as the author of Tom 
Brown's School Days at Rugby; of Joseph Bevan Braith- 
waite, one of the most profound theologians and linguists in the 
Society of Friends ; of Edward A. Ereeman, the eminent 



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historian; and most recently, of that accomplished scholar, 
honored representative of the culture and best social life of old 
England, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge? The young man's 
dignity befitting the presence of men of such mold involves a 
self-imposed discipline, which is itself education. I rejoice 
in believing that the value of such visits and such lectures 
has been justly measured by the Faculty of the College, and 
that the wide acquaintance and influence of our President, 
due in part to his Harvard associations, the merit of his author- 
ship, and his membership in the American branch of New 
Testament revisers will facilitate the wise use of these means of 
instruction. 

The judicious use of the power intrusted to colleges by the 
State of conferring honorary degrees, is always a delicate and 
embarrassing duty. The very value of such degrees depends 
strictly on their being limited to the recognition of merit extra- 
ordinary. If Haverford has erred in the exercise of this power, 
it has been on the safer side. Master of Arts in fourteen in- 
stances, Doctor of Literature in a single case, and Doctor of Laws 
thrice, comprise all that has been done in this direction in the 
twenty-seven years of its collegiate existence. However we may 
differ as to the wider use of this power, shall we not all agree that 
recognition should be thus given to accomplished literary and 
scientific work of superior merit by her own graduates or former 
students, and especially within the educational circles of the So- 
ciety of Friends, whether or not tiie worthy be her own 
children? The organization of the Educational Association of 
Friends in America has made possible what a few years ago 
would at least have been attended with great difficulty and prob- 
able inaccuracy, the measuring of the relative strength and orig- 
inality of all the leading educators among American Friends. 
The recent conference of this association was attended by at least 
two managei-s of Haverford College, and two members of its 
Faculty. Had these, at the close of that conference, united in the 
nomination of one or more of those educators with whom they 
had been brought into intimate relation, and who had impressed 
them all as men of mark in their profession, the conferring upon 
them of suitable honorary degrees would unquestionably have 



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been but the just recognition of merit and success, would have 
been a welcome addition to their professional capital, and would 
have materially strengthened the hold of Haverford upon com- 
munities and institutions of learning which may yet assist largely 
in maintaining and advancing its work. Is it yet too late ? 
The fleeting hour bids me close. 

Former Students op Haverford : 

How vividly do pictures of our school or college life crowd our 
memories to-day, as we look into faces long lost to view, and 
chords are touched which have been silent for years ! Bright 
days were those, when limbs were lithe, hearts buoyant, and 
brows unmarked by care. In memory we live them over with 
delight, yet M'ho would bring them back ? Who would reverse 
the wheel of time, and traverse once again the thorny path of 
years irrevocably past ? If we have learned aright the lessons 
which our nurturing mother taught, of man's depravity, God's 
mercy, Christ's redeeming love, fuin would we keep our eyes in- 
tent upon the mercy-seat, and trusting, praying, pressing on, 
complete life's pilgrimage, obtain the starry crown. 

But mid our joy to-day, our thoughts will naturally turn to 
those whose faces, once familiar here, we see not. Many of these 
engrossed in cares legitimate in distant fields of labor are toiling 
on, regardless of the pause we make to lighten care. Bearing 
aloft the banner of the Cross, sowing in youthful minds the seeds 
of virtue and of lore, pleading just cause, or ministering the 
healing art at suiierer's side — whatever the field, if only by the 
path of duty — for these we feel no sadness. Heaven's richest 
blessings rest upon them, and may the message of our thought 
and love cheer and encourage them. 

But death has made its inroads. jSTot a few, life's work com- 
pleted, have crossed the valley and passed over to the otiier 
shore. 

And are there other few in whom affection for their college 
home lives not, because their minds responded not to all the 
care bestowed ? Would they were here. Would they could 
know how gladly and how tenderly they would be welcomed 
back. 



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Our Alma Matee : 

Thine are we, and to thee we owe more than our words can 
tell. From out thy precious store of truth thou gave us freely. 
We thank thee for the light thou shed upon our paths, the help- 
ing hand thou gave us. Let us in turn, thy hand in ours, guide 
and sustain thy later life. And when, thy century completed, 
our children and our children's children meet as we are met, to 
crown thee with the laurel, may they rejoice as we rejoice to-day. 
Thy brow is fair, and pure thy heart, advancing years are 
adding to thy wisdom and thy strength. 



POEM 
By Francis B. Gummere, A. M., Ph. D., 

OF THE Class of 1872. 



HAA^ERFORD COLLEGE. 

Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, 
Fortunam ex aliis. — Ver^. JEn. XII, 435-6. 



Tliro' airy seas, upon a barge of fire, 
Comes Autumn, spirit of fulfill'd desire ; 

Her robe shines yellow thro' the brooding haze, 
Her eyes beam mild beneath a golden tire. 

Men hail her harbinger of every good. 
As thro' the broad Pactolus of the wood 

Her keel cuts flamewise, dashing fiery spray 
To right and left athwart the golden flood. 

Then, as she drifts across the seas of grain. 
Men dream no more of ^vaxing or of wane ; 

And earth and heaven, for one golden kiss, 
Steal back again to the Saturnian reign. 



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Girt with such joy, O Mother Lov'd, behold, 
To-day thy tale of fifty years is told ; 

And on the sunbright beauty of thy brow 
Falls the warm shadow of a crown of gold ! 

And we who once, amid thy peaceful ways. 
Fed on the honey of harmonious days, 

And drank the milk of glad content, — lo, we 
Come now to render thee our love and praise, 

And yet, — what honor have we done thy name ? 
'Twas ours to carve it on the walls of fame: 
But who hath seen thy favor in the lists, 
Or mark'd our swords amid the battle flame ? 

Ah, recreant knights ! and wherefore should we dare 
To touch thy robe, to breathe thy haunted air. 

And tell of quests forsaken, trophies lost. 
Not one return for all thy generous care ! 

When Rome was trembling at the Punic tread. 
When Cannae's marshes groan'd beneath their dead. 

And Aufidus ran crimson to the sea, 
His shatter'd host the Roman consul led 

Back from the city to Canusium's gate, 
Where some, made cowards by their low estate. 

Cried out : " Obey not if the Fathers call 
Us back. Remember Claudius and his fate ! . 

" Nay, rather, flying o'er yon alien foam, 
Let us forget that we are sprung from Rome ; 

Better to live in exile than to die 
Amid the curses of a ruin'd home !" 

But in the consul's veins that Roman pride 

Held its true purple : — " Cowards ! fools ! — abide ! 

Each to his place ; and I will go to Rome 
And meet the Fathers, let what will betide !" 



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And so lie went and met them. On that liead, 
Whose folly heap'd the Apulian fields with dead, 

Will not the curses of the Senate rain? 
What said the Fathers ? " Since thou hast not fled, 

" Who most had'st need to fear ; since thou hast dared 
A Roman deed ; since thou hast not despair'd 

Of the Commonwealth ; — behold, the Senate votes 
To give thee Roman thanks !" So Varro fared. 

And thou, too, Mother ! If thy nursling lays 
No perilous laurel at thy feet, no bays 

Pluck'd on the heights of song, no echo brings 
Caught from the thunder of a nation's praise : 

If, all unheralded by rolling drum. 

The banner tatter'd and the trumpet dumb. 

With naught but love and loyalty to plead. 
All empty-handed to thy shrine we come : 

Ay, if we fail'd thee in thy hour of need : 
Think that we too are of that Roman breed, 

Think that we never have despair'd of thee. 
And measure not the spirit by the deed ! 

II. 

Nor is thy labor fruitless. Though thy ear 
Ring not with praises of the pious seer, 

A thousand hearts beat braver for thy word. 
And myriad memories shall hold thee dear. 

Go, let yon Agamemnon's fame be blown 

In trumpet song thro' every time and zone, — 

Thou teachest us to take a better way. 
And win approval from no earthly tone. 

In clouds of dust, the great Olympic band 
Down time's arena sweeps from land to land ; 

And o'er and thro' the gloomy whirlwind flash 
The torches, brandish'd in some favor'd hand. 

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jSTot thine such strife, O Mother ! Let the-glare 
Of those wild torches fill the shrieking air, — 

Thou hast thy ward upon the strand of time, 
Watching that other light with jealous care; — 

The light that o'er the ocean of the soul 
Shines on untroubled by the tempest's roll ; — 

In seas of change set on eternal rock, 
A certain beacon to a certain goal. 

Men's eyes were sick of straining thro' the night ; 
Some follow'd phantoms — others curs'd their sight ; 

Priests babbled on, they scarce knew what ; till Fox 
Cried thro' the darkness : " Lo, the Inner Light !" 

Good need for such a cry ! When time began, 
God gave the charter of the soul to man. 

And seal'd it with indissoluble seals. 
And set its enemies beneath His ban. 

And time sped on ; and soon from pole to pole 
Man fared and throve and wax'd in cunning, goal 
By goal he touch'd, won beauty, might, but lost 
In evil hour the charter of his soul. 

Priests fill'd his vision with their altar smoke, 
Fetch'd him poor stammerings from cave or oak, 
And taught him that the thunder-word of God 
He could not hear save only when they spoke. 

Yet prophet after prophet, down the night, 
Cried out impetuous warning, having sight 

Of that sweet Eastern Star. But once again 
The world had prov'd unworthy of the Light. 

Thou, quaking clown, with rack'd and dizzy brain. 
Wandering homeless thro' the night and rain. 

Sobbing thy prayers, — art thou a prophet, too ? 
What wisdom has the world from thee to gain ? 



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Fox made reply : " Crioging to mitred uod, 
O men, and fearful of a priestly rod — 

'Tis time to waken from this feudal dream, 
And hold your tenancy direct from God !" 

O, one clear note among the hours whose chime 
Rings dull on this alloy of doubt and crime ! 

Keep tune with that, O Mother ; 'tis thy trust 
Until this gray world touch the bourne of time ! 

III. 

So speaks the higher mood. But ah, more dear 
Are Memory's voices to the waiting ear ; 

Hither we come to hear her, and escape 
The future's giant wardei-s, Hope and Fear. 

What reck we how the alternate glow and gloom 
Dart back and forth in time's eternal loom ? 

Our ears are weary of its ceaseless whir, 
Its broken echoes snatch'd from empires' doom. 

What care we how yon sullen planets fly 
Force-hounded down the ranges of the sky ? 

Enough for us, the sweetest summer day 
Must stretch at last its shadow-arms and die. 

How shall it give the night-worn watcher ease 
That day is breaking over Indian seas ? 

And ears that ache amid the din of life, 
Shall they be sooth'd by unheard harmonies? 

Yet Memory's voice is heard. Yon litany, 
Upborne in thunders of the sky and sea, 

Tunes the archangels' march. But men love best 
The flower-strung throbbings of the minor key. 

In steady march amid the glare of day. 
Life's army plods its upward Alpine way ; 

A noontide halt, and lo ! our happy steps 
A moment thro' this fir-arch'd valley stray. 



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Glad as all earth is when the gloom is torn 
From day's far eyry, and along the corn 

Skim the swift wings of sunlight, tilling the air 
With sudden ra^Dture of imperial morn, — 

So glad this valley. Boyhood's haunts we find, 
Dream the old dreams on mossy bank reclined. 

And hear again among yon waving boughs 
The immemorial sagas of the wind. 

And friends, whom all our friendship could not save, 
Cross hitherward the marches of tlie grave, 
Dim as a waned moon rising from the sea 
Spray-mantled in the kiss of wind and wave. 

And pale desires, ambitions long since flown, 

Pass dream wise down the paths of thought, and moan 

Majestic woe, as if a throng of kings 
In stately exile sorrow'd for the throne. 

The horns of Faery blow a fitful peal 

From forest depths; and down their vistas steal 

Shapes beckoning to follow where afar 
Stream the dim garments of our old Ideal. 



&" 



For memories of each discrown'd Avatar 
Live on, defiant of the crowns that are ; 

As year by year, upon its earthward way, 
Speeds the sad splendor of a vanish'd star. 

Hark ! querulous trumpets blow; the loud drum wakes 
Harsh echoes rolling down the vale ; life takes 

The old burdens up; the march is formed; and thro' 
Our morning dreams the glare of noontide breaks. 

Forward ! Yet listen : sounds as of a bell 
Die on the air in long and silvery swell ; 

O mark, my brothers ! 'Tis the olden time 
Chiming at once its blessing and farewell. 



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But Hail to Thee ! And may thy joys increase ! 
Soft fall thy footsteps down the paths of peace ; 

And may the stars that shine upon thy way 
From golden ministrations never cease. 



PRESENTATION OF THE PORTRAIT OF PLINY 
EARLE CHASE, LL. D. 



ADDRESS OP FRANCIS G. ALLINSON, A. M., Ph. D., OF T?IE 
CLASS OF 1876. 

Classmates and Brethren of the Alumni: 

The Class of 1876, at a meeting held in the summer of 1882, 
resolved to procure a portrait of Professor Pliny Chase, to present 
to the College. The following extract from the minutes of that 
meeting will explain their reason for assuming this privilege: 

" We, the Class of 1876, being the first to have had the advan- 
tage of Professor Pliny Chase's instructions during all four years 
of college life, wish to present to the College this testimonial of 
our increasing appreciation of the large debt which we owe to 
him who has been and is our beloved friend and instructor. 

"This debt we owe him for his unfailing charity, for his broad 
wisdom, and for the patient care with which he pointed out prin- 
ciples which should serve as 'bases' and 'foundation stones' in 
after life." ***** 

By the kind care of one of your number, who should stand 
here in my place to-day, this portrait has been procured. 

We tender it now to the College, less with the expectation of 
doing honor to him who needs no honor, than as a witness that 
we ourselves are striving to realize ever more thoroughly the 
lessons caught from his lips. 

Other more equal honors have sought him, and to him per- 
sonally we can only appropriate the words of the shepherd poet : 

"Grant also round thy brows to twine, 
'Midst laurel wreaths of triumph, 
This (our) ivy wreath " — 

" Atque hano sine terapora circum 

Inter victrices hederam tibi serpere laurus." 



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A few words for ourselves. What is this debt which we owe 
to our friend, to our teacher? Others, perhaps, may answer in 
other words; to me it seems that our great, our irredeemable 
debt, is liberty of thought. 

Strike fetters from the limbs and the limbs are still too stiff 
for full and immediate use. Strike fetters from the mind — fet- 
ters of ignorance, of falsehood, and of commonplace — and the 
mind, more delicate than the body, may require years to adjust 
itself to unwonted freedom. 

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers," yet the "years that 
bring the philosophic mind" are teaching us to understand how 
"all truth is God's truth," and that "Science is not false nor true 
religion narrow." In Professor Chase's own modest words, he 
has given us "stepping stones" for fording life's slippery and 
miry places. 

If our feet have sometimes slipped and our wliite togas have 
become stained and spotted, then we have not heeded well our 
footsteps, have not heeded the path marked out for us. 

May then this counterfeit of his well-loved features hang here 
on the walls of our old home, and long may words of wisdom 
flow from his living lips to awaken within each succeeding can- 
didate the love of truth, the germs of wisdom. 

On behalf of the Class of 1876 I tender to Haverford College 
this portrait of Professor Pliny Earle Chase. 

peesident thomas chase's reply to professob francis 

g. allinson. 

Gentlemen of the Class of 1876 : 

" Full heart, few words." Let me speak first of your gift, 
and then of the givers. You have paid your teacher a well- 
deserved honor. Allow me to say, waiving all reserve from my 
near relationship to him, that as a man of science and a philoso- 
pher his name is known in every civilized laud, and he stands in 
the foremost rank in the estimation of the learned. To his skill 
and fidelity as an instructor, and his inspiring influence and ex- 
ample, I can add my testimony to yours. 

And let me say to you, personally, that you have shown what 



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is always praiseworthy in students and encouraging to their in- 
sti'uctors, a just appreciation of the able and disinterested ser- 
vice which your honored Professor has rendered to you. You 
have linked the name of your class with a memorial which will 
always be cherished here ; and as it hangs, for centuries to come, 
on the walls of this or some future halls of this College, it will 
excite kindly thoughts both of your teacher and yourselves. 

In the name, then, of the College, in the name of its oiScers 
and students, in the name of this whole body of the Alumni, who, 
with the present members, constitute Haverford- College in the 
larger sense, I accept your gift, and I thank you. 



EVENING EXERCISES. 

At the informal gathering in the evening, under the lindens 
in front of Founders' Hall, Henry Hartshorne, A. M., M. D., 
of the class of 1839, as President of the Alumni Association, 
opened the proceedings by appropriate words of welcome on be- 
half of the Association, and then recited the following verses : 

FIFTY YEARS AGO. 
Old boys and young, come all. 

With bounding feet or slow ; 
How many were on call 

Just fifty years ago ? 

Ah ! we were merry then, 

Without remorse or woe; 
Let's play we're boys again. 

Just fifty years ago ! 

Then, on this College green, 

Yon trees began to grow ; 
What springs, what falls have been, 

Since fifty years ago ! 

With smiles, and yet with tears. 

Our hearts ebb to and fro — 
More hopes and fewer fears 

Than fifty years ago. 



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Thank God, our lives have given 

So much to feel and know : 
Thank Him, we're nearer heaven 

Than fifty years ago ! 

The President of the meeting then called upon President 
Thomas Chase to say a few words on behalf of the Faculty. 

President Chase said : 

I heard a distinguished gentleman say in New York, two 
evenings ago, when asked to make a brief speech on a great sub- 
ject, that even in a steam-engine it took more than ten minutes 
to get up the steam, unless it were a dummy engine, and he did 
not wish to be thought a dummy. But when I am asked to 
speak upon anything that relates to Haverford, I need no time 
to kindle all my enthusiasm. To-night my heart is full. But 
I will not speak of myself. "VVe want to hear our old boys re- 
cite. As regards the Faculty, I am glad to tell our old boys 
tliat, if good men whom they knew have gone, others have come 
to it, and that, in ability and distinction, our Professors need 
not sliriak from a comparison with those of any other college. 
Nowhere are students better taught or under better guidance. 

And let me congratulate you all on the additional evidence 
which this day gives that Haverford College has become a 
piower in the land. I believe she is destined to become such in 
much greater measure now that she passes into "another happy 
lustrum and an ever better age." As a place of Christian nur- 
ture, where sound learning and every manly virtue ai'e fostered 
and cultivated, she has no superior. She needs only to be known 
to be loved and sought, and year by year her merits will receive 
wider and wider recognition. Let us all count it an honor and 
a privilege to be permitted to labor for the ends for which she 
was founded, and for her sure welfare and renown. 



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James Tysok, A. M., M. D., of the Class of 1860, said : 
I fear that he who suggested my being called upon this even- 
ing was not of those present on the occasion of my first effort 
at after-dinner speech making, in these very halls just twenty- 



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five years ago. The occasion was a social gatliering of the 
Athenseum Societ}^, iu what was then Icnown as the lecture-room 
over the old gymnasium. The Class of 1860, of which I was 
a member, had just passed through its sophomore — or, as it was 
then called its second junior — biennial examination. Tiie re- 
sults of this were such as to make it not unnatural that I should 
be called upon as the class representative on the occasion. Of 
this, however, in my then unsophisticated state, I had not a 
suspicion. Accordingly, while oblivious of all but the pleas- 
ures of the table — ice-cream, cake, and perhaps lemonade — my 
name was called. I shall always remember the eager, expectant 
look of dear Professor Chase as I stepped to the centre of the 
room. Nor shall I forget the disappointment which overspread 
his face, as after spluttering a few unintelligible words, I ignomin- 
iously retired from the field. I fear I shall not do much better 
now, but, as I am before you, I will say that which is upjjerniost. 

It has so happened that since leaving Havex'ford I have been 
brought iuto relation with colleges and many college graduates, 
and as is natural under the circumstances, I have often com- 
pared the practices and results of other institutions with those 
of my own Alma Mater. As the outcome of such comparison 
there are three particulars in whicli it has appeared to me 
Haverford is conspicuous in its excellence. The first of these is 
the fidelity and conscientiousness with which its Faculty have 
always carried out all that has been announced in its curriculum. 
There are many colleges in the land whose standard and re- 
quirements upon f)aper may appear higher than those of Haver- 
ford, but there are few who live up to them as faithfully, or 
whose graduates show more decidedly the stamp of a careful 
training. 

A second result of my observation has been to note the promi- 
nence which Haverford's graduates have assumed in whatever 
calling they may have engaged, and the respect they everywhere 
inspire. This, as I have said, is not confined to any one calling, 
but my own opportunities of comparison have of course been 
more particularly in connection with the medical profession, and 
when we remember that the college classes have been restricted 
in numbers, the proportion of well-known and eminent medical 



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men among them is conspicuous. Indeed it would seem that 
a Haverford man has only to become a doctor to become an 
eminent one. Beginning with the first graduating class, that of 
1836, we have the well-known name of Thomas F. Cock, LL. D. ; 
in 1838, that of James V. Emlen; in 1839, Henry Harts- 
horne; in 1842, James J. Levick ; in 1843, William D. Stroud ; 
in 1851, Zaccheus Test and James C. Thomas ; in 1852, Dougan 
Clark; in 1853, William H. Pancoast; in 1856, Jonathan J. 
Comfort; in 1858, Thomas Wistar; in 1859, the lamented 
Edward Ehoads; in 1860, William B. Corbit and John W. 
Pinkham; in 1861, Jehu H. Stuart; in 1862, Horace Wil- 
liams; in 1863, Joseph G. Pinkham; in 1864, William Ash- 
bridge and Morris Longstreth ; in 1868, Lonis Starr, and others. 

It has also been my good fortune to have to do with Haver- 
fordians as students of medicine in the medical department of the 
University of Pennsylvania ; and they are always of the best, — 
the best prepared in their preliminary education, the most atten- 
tive and studious as pupils and most creditable as graduates. 

The third feature in which Haverford has appeared to advan- 
tage in my comparisons is the purity of the life here. This is 
scarcely understood at the time by those who live under its in- 
fluence. Indeed, it is really only when we have boys of our own 
that we come to appreciate fully the life we knew at Haverford, 
and to feel it is here that the influences by which we would have 
them surrounded, exist. 

Fellow Haverfordians, I am not eloquent, but if I were, I 
should sing such praises of our old school as would draw upon 
her the attention of the civilized world, as the home of sound 
culture and thorough training, of promises well fulfilled, and of 
a wholesome domestic life, whose recollection is a well-spring 
of happy and joyous reminiscences. 

The presiding officer, remarking, " I am requested to say that 
if there are any who wish to go to the city by the 8.21 train, they 
should now leave," introduced 

Professor Clement L. Smith, of the Class of 1860, who said : 

I am much tempted, Mr. President, to go by the 8.21 train; 

but I suppose that to-night, if at no other time, Haverford, like 



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England, expects every man to do his duty. "When the Chair- 
man of the Committee of Arrangements took me aside tliis after- 
noon to warn me that I was to make an extempore speech, he 
told me to say whatever came into luy head. The President of 
the College, on the other hand, has called upon the old boys to 
recite. I am somewhat at a loss between these conflicting in- 
structions, but on the whole it seems to me safe not to subject 
myself to the President's test, but to tell you one or two things 
that came into my head as I listened to the oration this after- 
noon. 

The orator said so many kind things about Harvard that I 
wondered wliether he also had us in his mind when he was speak- 
ing of the duty of observing great caution in conferring honorary 
degrees. You are no doubt glad to find that in this matter 
Harvard has found it necessary to draw the line somewhere. 
But what I especially had in mind to refer to was that part of 
the address in which the orator presented to us in definite shape 
the need of the College of endowed professorships. As we meet 
here to-day with our minds full of reminiscences we ought not 
to forget that standing at the end of one-half century we also 
stand at the beginning of another ; we should look forward as 
well as backward. For I am one of those who believe that 
Haverford has still a great work before her. Now v;hat makes 
a college is men. Glad as we must be to see yonder liandsome 
and comfortable building, which has been erected since our day, 
it was a much greater thing that the orator could tell us this 
afternoon that the present Faculty is superior to any of its prede- 
cessors. I can say for myself that, looking back now at my 
student life here, I can see that above everything else in its effect 
on me was the influence of one man — the one who now worthily 
holds the President's chair; that his instruction, his advice, and 
his example have done much to shape my career. I hope, there- 
fore, that in all plans for the future of Haverford provision will 
be made above all for accomplished men ; and I hope the orator's 
suggestions will bear fruit. Only I must differ from him in one 
particular, the endowment should be not thirty but fifty thou- 
sand dollars. When men devote their lives to this work, we are 
bound to see that they are reasonably comfortable. 



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These are a few of the things that it has come into my head 
to say. 

Francis T. King, of Baltimore, said : 

I was one of the twenty-one students who entered Haverford 
fifty years ago, at its opening in 1833. An unusually large pro- 
portion of the first scholars are still living, and quite a number 
of them are now pi'esent at this semi-centennial anniversary. 

I left Baltimore yesterday, and in three hours and a half I was 
at Haverford, and if I had been prevented from leaving home 
I could have sent you telegraphic notice of the fact in as many 
minutes. Fifty years ago I left Baltimore in a small side-wheel 
steamboat at seven A. m., lauded at Frenchtown on the headwaters 
of the Chesapeake Bay, crossed the State of Delaware, eighteen 
miles, on a strap iron railway, to New Castle, thence by steam- 
boat to Philadelphia, arriving there about six p. M. After i-esting 
that night in the cit y, I reached Haverford next morning in a 
single passenger carriage, drawn by a horse and driven by " Old 
Geoi'ge," with the baggage on top, in stage-coach style. The car 
was drawn from the level of the Schuylkill up an inclined plane 
to the heights above by a stationary engine, which worked an 
endless rope, to which our car was attached. 

I might draw almost as striking a contrast between the Hav- 
erford of 1833 and that of to-day as I have between my travel- 
ing experiences. In the one case a lonely Hall in the centre of 
unplanted fields ; in the other three large Halls, surrounded by 
lawns, avenues, and groups of trees, which are the admiration of 
all who see them. 

So much for the past and present. What contrasts will the 
speaker of 1933 make at the Centennial Anniversary ? Will 
he arrive from New York or Baltimore by electric power, and 
will he find Haverford in the centre of the most beautiful 
suburb of Philadelphia, no longer a College but a University ? 

A noble band of men laid the foundation of Haverford 
School, and their worthy descendants have built up Haverford 
College, as we see it in its beauty and usefulness to-day. It is 
true that Haverford College is not a large college, few denom- 
inational institutions of learning are, but it has been of iucalcu- 



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lable benefit and blessing to the religious Society in whose interest 
it was founded. It has produced no " great men/' but perhaps 
a larger proportion of successful men, good men, than any 
college of its size in our country. I believe that moderate-sized 
colleges, well organized, well endowed, and well managed, pro- 
duce the best results. 

May the aim of Haverford always be quality more than 
quantity, and may this impressive and joyous reunion to-day 
deepen our affection for our Alma Mater, and stimulate us to do 
all in our power to strengthen the College and extend its useful- 
ness. 

President Magill, of Swarthraore College, said : 

President of the Alumni of Haverfokd Coi/LEGe, 
Ladies and Gentlemen : — I came to hear and not to be 
heard ; to learn and not to teach. And what can a young 
maiden of sweet sixteen like Swarthmore have to say to a digni- 
fied matron of half a century that is worthy of her attention and 
acceptance? As I listened to the recital by the orator of the 
day of what Haverford has done in her first half century and 
the place which she holds to-day among the colleges of the land; 
I was inspired with renewed zeal and energy in behalf of our 
beloved Swarthmore, between which and Haverford there are so 
many causes for sympathy and alliance. 

The first class in Haverford, fifty years ago — a class that has 
been represented here to-day by both of its two graduates — had 
for one of its teachers one who has occupied this platform and 
witnessed these ceremonies to-day and is now our own honored 
Professor of English Literature, Dr. Joseph Thomas, of Phila- 
delphia. 

I also see before me one who is an honored alumnus of Haver- 
ford, who was one of the five who constituted the first Faculty 
at Swarthmore, and who is now Dean of the Faculty of Harvard 
College, Clement L. Smith, formerly of Delaware County. 

Among many other things of value which I have learned here 
to-day, not the least valuable is how to make the most effective 
■ appeal for endowments for a college, and I trust that the ad- 
mirable appeal which we have heard will prove seed sown in 



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good ground and spring up and produce fruit for Haverford — 
not merely a hundred, but many thousand fold. 

It has been a source of very great satisfaction to me to spend 
with you this memorable day, and I most cordially extend to the 
Haverford alumni an invitation to be present when Swarthmore 
has similar commemorative exercises on the occasion of her semi- 
centennial in 1919. 

Professor Pliny Eaele Chase said : 

The many words of hearty greeting and of kindly remem- 
brance with which you have overwhelmed me to-day make an 
acknowledgment in "the poor common words of courtesy" seem, 
indeed, a mockery. I can only thank you for the too flattering 
estimate which you have put upon my past eflPorts in your be- 
half and assure you that in such appreciation as yours I find the 
greatest reward for which a teacher could ask. 

You have heard to-day abundant and important evidence of 
the increasing recognition which your Alma Mater is receiving 
from those who are best fitted to judge of her good work. In 
my late vacation-trip to Europe I had a good opportunity to com- 
pare our methods with those of the great English universities. 
Taking mastery of principles, breadth of mental and spiritual 
culture, and completeness of preparation for life-work as the 
tests of scholarship, I do not hesitate to acknowledge my belief 
that the average Haverford student need fear no comparison with 
the average students of any foreign college, even if those students 
are laureate with the "oJ ■Kolloi" degree of Oxford or Cambridge. 
I do not claim that our graduates have all attained the finished 
scholarship of those who take "honors'" degrees in the great 
English triposes ; but among those who have entered at Harvard 
or Johns Hopkins on the Haverford diploma, there has been a 
rounded symmetry of development, such as is rarely seen. 

I have long loved Haverford. Since my return I love her, 
if possible, more than ever before, and I assure you that she is 
eminently worthy of your love. May the enthusiasm which to- 
day's experience has awakened in you all be so abiding that in 
your stewardship of the Lord's bounty you will never forget her 
needs and her claims. May you always remember that no por- 



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tion of the talents which He has given you to occupy till He 
comes will yield a better usury than that which increases the en- 
dowment of your spiritual foster-mother and enables her to widen, 
for all coming time, the usefulness of which you are living and 
loving witnesses. 

Henry Bettle, of the Class of 1861, said: 

I never felt more embarrassed in my life, nor how poor words 
were to convey ideas or emotions, or was more thoroughly con- 
vinced that this occasion itself, with all its clustering memories, 
was its own best and most eloquent orator. As I am not a 
professor, lawyer, or doctor, but only a plain man of business, 
you must not expect eloquence from me. 

It is always pleasant, I think, to those who love Haverford, 
thus to gather at these our annual meetings, in this solemn 
twilight of the year, around the hearthstone, as Whittier says, 
of our Alma Mater, to stretch the hands of memory forth to 
warm them at the wood-fire's blaze. And it would seem not 
only pleasant but profitable to turn aside, if only for a brief day, 
into this quiet haven, from the noise and distractions, the never- 
ceasing activities and corroding anxieties of this practical, every- 
day life of ours, to turn our minds from the Present, with its 
absorbing realities, and from the Future, with its infinite possi- 
bilities, to the Past, where lie the sunny memories of boyhood's 
joyous hours — -those happy hours when hope about us clung like 
the climbing vine. What is hope, says Carlyle — 

"A smiling rainbow children follow through the wet; 
'Tis not liere — still yonder, yonder, never urchin found it yet." 

Engrossed in business, which, if it sharpen the intellect, leaves 
the heart barren, toiling after temporal riches, seeing, in our 
daily intercourse with men, selfishness everywhere reflected 
about us, how necessary to the revival of those purer and more 
enthusiastic feelings of our better natures, these reunions under 
the benediction of our Alma Mater. 

" The world is too much with us — late and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers." 



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But not alone from the marts of commerce, the busy walks of 
trade, do these classmates of former years gather in friendly 
communion on this the Fiftieth Anniversary of this noble and 
useful institution, founded, as the charter says, for the instruc- 
tion of the youth in the liberal arts and sciences. From all 
fields of activity the sons of Haverford come to listen to the 
voices of the Past, as they seem to sigh, almost mournfully, 
among these over-arching pines. What do these voices say to 
us to-night ? Do they not speak to us of the unforgotten and 
sanctified dead, over whom memory throws a hallowing haze of 
tenderness ? Do they not call to mind the names and services 
and characters of those who founded this College ? And first 
on the list of corporators stands the name of one of Philadel- 
phia's merchant princes — a typical merchant, such as is described 
by Thomas Chalmers, 



" Whose eje, tiirned even on empty space, 
Beam'd keen with honor" — 



Thomas P. Cope. Then follow the names of Samuel Battle, 
Senior, and Thomas C. James and Isaac Davis ; and among the 
first managers, Henry Cope, Thomas Kimber, Thomas Evans, 
Samuel B. Morris, Lindley Murray; that ripe scholar and 
Christian gentleman, Charles Yarnall, and Isaac Collins, to 
whose foresight we owe this magnificent park and these academic 
shades. As I think of these men, and how faithfully they 
endeavored to serve God in their generation, there are no words 
that more fittingly express my feelings than those of Tennyson, 
in the seventy-sixth stanza of his " In Memoriam :" 

" As sometimes in a dead man's face. 
To those that watch it more and more, 
A likeness, hardly seen before, 
Comes out to some one of his race; 

"So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, 
I see thee as thou art, and know 
Thy likeness to tlie wise below. 
Thy kindred with the great of old. 



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" But there is more than I can see, 
And wliat I see I leave unsaid, 
Nor speak it, knowing death hath made 
His darkness beautiful with thee." 

Is there not another voice speaking to us to-night, my 
brothers? It may be tlie voice of conscience, asking whether, in 
the fierce conflicts and temptations of life, we have been loyal to 
the teachings of Haverford ; or whether, in all those soul- 
struggles — in the inner world of man's spirit, in those seasons 
of doubt and fear, and of those mysterious questionings which 
cannot be repressed, which every intelligent mind must pass 
through ; whether, in these times of proving, we have kept the 
faith — the faith that giveth the victory, a faith in Him who 
said, " If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall 
ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you." 

Whatever the answer, let us hope that we may go forth from 
this place with our faith strengthened, with fresh courage, earn- 
est imjjulses, and noble aspirations to fight the great battle with 
the world, the flesh, and the evil. 

Permit me to say a few words to 'the undergraduates. We 
want you to play hard and study hard. Be in earnest about 
everything that is right, and you cannot hear too often Dr. 
Arnold's words to his boys at Rugby, which Thomas Hughes 
quoted here : " It is not necessary that this school should consist 
of three hundred, or one hundred and fifty, or of fifty boys, but 
it is necessary that it shotild consist of Christian gentlemen." 
You heard Lord Coleridge the other day ; take his advice and 
commit to memory any passage of prose or poetry that strikes 
your fancy. Having followed this course, I can bear witness 
that the recitation or memory of these has been an unspeakable 
comfort to me — not only on sleepless nights, as Lord Coleridge 
said, but in the deeps of sorrow, the tumult of business, or when 
lost in other cares. Study, then, Milton, Gray, Keats, Shelley, 
Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tennyson, Elizabeth 
Barrett Browning, and, if you can understand him, Robert 
Browning. Read all the prose writers he mentioned, and it 
won't hurt you to take Charles Lamb's advice and read about the 
early Quakers, Fox, Penn, and Barclay, and — not to be secta- 
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rian — read by all means Thomas Chalmers and Frederick W. 
Robertson. 

Remember, that the reputation and character of this College 
rest mainly in your hands, and that' we expect every man and 
boy among you not to trifle with so great a trust, not to neglect 
so great opportunities. 

Alumni, honored President, and Faculty, undergraduates, 
descendants of the founders, and friends of Haverford, let us all 
stand together in one harmonious eifort to make this College all 
that it might be — all that we desire to see it, not only a light 
and blessing in our day, but for the generations yet to be. 

As Coleridge said, this College is not so very young, cherish it. 
And as was said years ago at Harvard (and don't let us forget the 
debt of gratitude Haverford owes Harvard in giving us our be- 
loved President, Thomas Chase), I repeat, as was said at Harvard, 
let it be our office to light a fresh beacon fire on the venerable 
walls of Haverford, sacred to Truth, to Christ, and the Church ; 
to Truth Immortal, to Christ the Comforter, to the Holy Church 
Universal ; let the flame spread from steeple to steeple, from hill 
to hill, from continent to continent, until the long lineage of 
fires shall illumine all the nations of the earth, animating them 
in the holy contests of Knowledge, Justice, Beauty, Love. 

Augustus H. Reeve, of the Class of 1885, said : 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Alumni : — I 
feel as though the Committee had, whether intentionally or not, 
been dealing in pleasantry this evening in calling upon an under- 
graduate last, after listening to so many older speakers. I am 
reminded of the story of the old lady who always used to eat 
her dessert first. When asked why, she said it was because she 
was afraid that otherwise she might never live to get to her 
dessert. Perhaps that is why we have had our excellent dessert 
first to-night. If I had been consulted, I should have recom- 
mended even more of it. 

But after we have heard from so many of the " Old Boys " of 
Haverford, it is my privilege, as one of the Young Boys, to ad- 
dress you. I am glad, on behalf of the Undergraduates, to ex- 
press to you our pleasure iu being present at this anniversary 



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and in taking part in the exercises of to-day. It makes us proud 
of our College to see so many of her old sons here — men dis- 
tinguished in many ways. We feel to-night that much depends 
upon ourselves. We hear of the reputation, both in studies and 
sports, which former classes have gained for the College. We 
owe it to you and to the College to live up to the record you have 
left us. We assure you that there is still that pride, both upon 
the cricket-ground and in the class-room, which it was your 
pleasure to found here and it is our duty to maintain. 

As we are now entering upon our second half-century, larger 
in numbers than ever before, we look forward to that other day, 
fifty years to come, when those who are here then will recall the 
doings of to-daj^, but to a different audience; and as we thank 
you for the pleasure afforded us, we sincerely hope it may be 
permitted us to meet many of you here then when it will be more 
truly our celebration. 

I trust that we, of the present and our successors, will do our part 
and combine to make the half-century ushered in to-night worthy 
of the first in every way. I thank you again for the pleasure and 
the varied feelings which have been evoked this day ; but remind' 
you that silence is far more eloquent than any words of mine. 

Brief remarks were also made in response to calls by Philip 
C. Garrett, Joseph Parrish, and Francis B. Gummere. 



EXTRACTS FEOM LETTERS. 
From the letters received by the Committee on Invitations, 
many of which were read at the evening meeting, the following 
are extracts : 

John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. 

The Semi-Centennial of Haverford College is an event that no 
member of the Society of Friends can regard without deep interest. 
It would give me great pleasure to be with you on the 27tli iust., 
but the years rest heavily upon me, and I have scarcely health 
or strength for such a journey. 

It was my privilege to visit Haverford in 1838, in " the day 
of small beginnings." The promise of usefulness which it then 



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gave has been more than fulfilled. It has grown to be a great 
and ■well-established institution, and its influence in thorough 
education and moral training has been widely felt. If the high 
educational standard presented in the scholastic treatise of Bar- 
clay and the moral philosophy of Dymond has been lowered or 
disowned by many who, still retaining the name of Quakerism, 
have lost faith in the vital principle wherein precious testimo- 
nials of practical righteousness have their root, and have gone 
back to a dead literalness, and to those materialistic ceremonials 
for leaving which our old confessors suifered bonds and death, 
Haverford, at least, has been in a good degree faithful to the trust 
committed to it. 

Under circumstances of more than ordinary difficulty, it has 
endeavored to maintain the Great Testimony. 

The spirit of its culture has not been a narrow one, nor could 
it be, if true to the broad and catholic principles of the eminent 
worthies who founded the State of Pennsylvania, Penn, Lloyd, 
Pastorius, Logan, and Story — men who were masters of the 
scientific knowledge and culture of their age, hospitable to all 
truth, and open to all light, and who in some instances anticipated 
the result of modern research and critical inquiry. 

It was Thomas Story, a minister of the Society of Friends, 
and member of Penn's Council of State, who, while on a religious 
visit to England, wrote to James Logan that he had read on the 
stratified rocks of Scarborough, as from the finger of God, proofs 
of the immeasurable age of our planet, and that the "days" of 
the letter of Scrij)ture could only mean vast spaces of time. 

May Haverford emulate the example of these brave but rev- 
erent men, who, in investigating nature, never lost sight of the 
Divine Ideal, and, who, to use the words of Fenelon, "Silenced 
themselves to hear in the stillness of their souls tlie inexpressible 
voice of Christ." Holding fast the mighty truth of the Divine 
Immanence, the Inward Light and Word, a Quaker college can 
have no occasion to renev/ the disastrous quarrel of i-eligion with 
science. Against the sublime faith which shall yet dominate the 
world, skepticism has no power. No possible investigation of 
natural facts in searching criticism of letter and tradition can dis- 
turb it, for it has its witness in all human hearts. 



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That Haverford may fully realize and improve its great op- 
portunities as an approved seat of learning and the exponent of 
a Christian philosophy which can never be superseded, which 
needs no change to fit it for universal acceptance, and which, 
overpassing the narrow limits of sect, is giving new life and hope 
to Christendom, and finding its witnesses in the Hindoo revivals 
of the Brahmo Somaj and the fervent utterances of Chunda Sen 
and Mozoomdar, is the earnest dasire of thy friend. 

Thomas C Hill, Chicago, 111. 

I should rejoice to be with you. I leave my home and busi- 
ness, and live over again for a time " the dear, the brief, the for- 
ever-remembered schoolboy days at Haverford." As I write at 
this distance both of time and of space those pleasant associations 
are passing like a panorama before me. Besides the school- 
fellows and classmates are Superintendent Joseph Cartland, 
giving us a moral lecture during the five minutes before the 
second bell rings ; Matron Elizabeth B. Hopkins, still in her 
teens, with the pantry-keys in a basket on her arm ; the classi- 
cal Joseph W. Aldrich, tiie mathematical Hugh D. Vail, the 
literary and scientific Alfred H. and Albert K. Smiley. Then 
I was near the twenty-first, now I have passed the fifty-second 
milepost in life's journey. During this time, no doubt, you with 
me have been helped and prospered in our lifework by the 
raany valuable lessons learned at Haverford. 

Thomas L. Baily, Atlantic City, IST. J. 

As I was one who participated in the game of football when 
"Haverford Revisited" was indeed a day of pleasure, I should 
have been glad to witness, if not participate in, another ''athletic 
pastime" performed by some of younger academic fame. 

J. L. HoAG, Iowa Falls, Iowa. 

I assure you I shall always take a deep interest in everything 
connected with the school where some of the most profitable 
hours of my life were spent. 

Elihu J. Farmer, Cleveland, Ohio. 

jSTothing could have afforded me greater pleasure than to have 



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met my college friends of nearly thirty years ago, and to have par- 
ticipated with you in a grand reunion of the boys of Haverford. 

Israel P. Hole, Damascus Academy, Ohio. 

Such a fraternal gathering must be profitable as well as pleas- 
ant. Haverford recalls pleasant memories to the minds of her 
student children, and occupies a warm place in the regard of 
many who have not enjoyed her privileges. 

Benjamin H. "Wright, Indianapolis, Ind. 

The temptation to again mingle with "the boys" and to have 
the pleasure of listening to my friend John B. Garrett, and jjar- 
taking of other "feasts of reason and flow of soul" that may be 
anticipated, is hard to resist; but "a boy" who has a wife and ten 
children and as many grandchildren has assumed duties that 
must be attended to before pleasure. 

Thomas Kimber, Richmond Hill, L. I. 

Although it will be impossible for me to accept your invita- 
tion, yet I would send you my warmest wishes for the prosperity 
of my old Alma Mater, and the assurance of my earnest prayers 
that many years of usefulness and growing life and influence 
may yet be hers. At other times I have done what I could to 
discharge in part, at least, the debt that I owed her, and wish 
that I could do more. 

As I looked to-day at my diploma of 1842, with the honored 
names of John Gummere, Daniel B. Smith, and Samuel J. Gum- 
mere attesting in such kind terms the certificate of my successful 
completion of a four years' course of laborious but delightful 
study at Haverford, I felt a fresh thrill of interest awakened in 
my heart toward the old institution and of thankfulness for all 
the privileges and opportunities that I had enjoyed there. 

I know that of latter years, under the able direction of its dis- 
tinguished President and its excellent Faculty and Board of 
Management, the advantages offered to the earnest student at 
Haverford College have been carefully maintained, and I trust 
that its favorite motto — " Non doctior sed meliore doctrina ira- 
butus" — may always in its highest sense describe the character 
not only of the instruction there, but of all those who graduate 
under its auspices. 



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Geoege a. Baeton, Boston, Mass. 

I console myself with the hope that in 1933, when Haverford 
shall have become a university, I may be able to join in your 
festivities and celebrate a glorious centennial. 

Robert B. Howland, Union Springs, N. Y. 

Forty years have rolled around since I left the school. For 
five years it was to me a very pleasant home, and I was glad to 
have my humble share in its revival some three or four years 
after. 

W. L. Kinsman, Salem, Mass. 

Much as I would enjoy being with you in the body, I must 
therefore content myself with a representation in the spirit, and 
with the hope that one or both of the other members of my 
little class of five, who graduated in the spring of 1852 may be 
able to be present and fitly to " stand up and be counted " on 
the joyous occasion. 

John B. Mellok, Central City, Colo. 

Invitation to hand, and is an exception to the old adage of 
" distance lends enchantment," for I should love to be one of 
you, and believe T could be a boy again on the old playground. 

Joseph H. Atwatee, Providence, R. I. 

How gladly would I again revisit its Halls, old and new, and 
look once more upon its beautiful lawn, see again familiar faces, 
and revive old-time memories. 

Caspar Wistar Haines, Mexico. 

It is very grateful to find that altliough I have been absent 
from the United States for some years, and for more have not 
visited my Alma Mater, that I have still friends there who have 
not forgotten me in my distant home. I hope that the reunion 
proved a success, as I have no doubt that it did, and should the 
Association publish the proceedings, hope that you will be kind 
enough to send me a copy. 

Madison Betts, Wilmington, Ohio. 

My good wishes go with you — may the Alumni of Haver- 
ford, in the pleasures of the occasion, fully realize the dream of 



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Ponce de Leon that " there is a fountain of perpetual youth ;" 
and in quafBng from that fountain may the thrilling and living 
memories that it brings doubly assure them that youth is im- 
mortal. 

Samuel E. Hilles, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

As the grandson of the first Superintendent, the son of an 
early instructor, and principally from my own associations, I 
greatly regret that I cannot give myself this pleasure, but I 
have no fears of the success of the occasion and its advantage 
to Haverford. 

Wm. B. Morgan, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. 

I hope, however, the occasion may be a joyous and profitable 
one to all who can attend, and result in great good to the 
College. 

Thomas J. Battey, Providence, E. I. 

I trust much good fellowship and encouragement for the 
future may result from the revival of old memories and the 
mutual interchange of thought and feeling that such a gather- 
ing will bring about. 

Charles F. Coffin, Richmond, Ind. 

Haverford College has had much to do in the general increase 
in learning and intelligence which has taken place amongst 
Friends since it was founded. That its work may go forward 
and that in the future, as in the past, it may be the source of 
much good, not only to our Society but to the country at large, 
is my earnest desire. 

Timothy B. Hussey, North Berwick, Maine. 
Haverford College has a very warm place in our hearts ; may 
its usefulness long continue. 

John W. Stapler, Tahlequah, Indian Territory. 

I am compelled to decline the personal happiness of being on 
the collegiate grounds and meeting with the surviving professors 
and members of our class during the period of my life so appro- 
priately and beautifully depicted in your circular of invitation. 
Be assured, in my distant home the day will be remembered. 



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and in feeling I shall rejoice with you in the prosperity and per- 
manent success of Haverford College. 

Joseph Cartland, Newburyport, Mass. 

Thirty years ago this autumn closed my official connection 
with the Institution, but I have never ceased to watch its pro- 
gress with a sort of paternal regard, rejoicing in every indica- 
tion of its prosperity. 

The necessity of Haverford College to supply the higher 
educational needs of Friends in America is no longer a question 
with any intelligent observer, and under its able management it 
seems to me that it has been steadily winning its way in the 
popular confidence. 

As every year adds to its list of Alumni, may we not hope 
that these, true to their Alma Mater, will be found making 
grateful returns for benefits received, in adding to the endow- 
ments of the College, and thus increasing its efficiency. 

I earnestly desire that Haverford may continue to maintain 
its enviable reputation for the thoroughness and liberality of its 
curriculum, its moral and religious standing, and sound Chris- 
tian teaching, and that its commanding influence in the Society 
of Friends may be ichely coiwervatwe and wisely progressive. 

Zaccheus Test, Richmond, Ind. 

I can therefore only send my sincere regrets, accompanied by 
the hearty wish that the happy occasion, while it does meet honor 
to Haverford's past, may prove a propitious omen for her future. 
Please convey my kindliest greetings to the representatives of 
the Class of '51, and accept my best wishes for the complete 
success of the semi-centennial celebration. 

John B. Crenshaw, Richmond, Va. 

I have ever felt the deepest interest in my Alma Mater, and 
earnestly desire that her usefulness may increase with the increase 
of years, and that the training received by those whose privilege 
it is to call her " Mater " may ever point to Him whose right it 
is to rule and reign in every heart. 

Henry Fothergill, Steelton, Pa. 

I shall certainly try to be there, as it is now thirty years since 



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I left, and I have never been there since. No event, not even 
the great Centennial, has ever excited such a longing within me. 

Wm. H. Hubbard, Indianapolis, Ind. 

I still hold, and ever shall, a strong love for Haverford, and 
fond memories of the College fellows and also of the Professors, 
some of whom still honor the Institution by their instruction. 
Let me send greeting and kindest love to all who may meet at 
the celebration. 

James E. Mbndenhall, High Point, N. C. 

I was the pioneer student alone from North Carolina in 1836 
at ten years of age. My cousin, Dr. Nereus Mendenhall, joined 
College there in 1837. He remained only two years, and gradu- 
ated with the first distinction. 

Wm. L. Dean, Ferrisburgh, Yt. 

I have long been interested in the prosperity of the Institu- 
tion, and now more than ever, having a son under its care. 
Thankful for the many evidences of Divine blessing in the past, 
let us pray that Haverford may have an enlarged usefulness in 
the future under the same blessing, and that her sons may go 
forth all over the land to promote the glory of God and the good 
of their fellow-men. 

S. F. ToMLiNSON, Durham, N. C. 

I owe much to Haverford, and feel proud to claim her as my 
Alma Mater. May she live long and prosper. 

Edmund Rodman, New Bedford, Mass. 

I lool^ back with a mixture of pride and pleasure to the days 
spent at Haverford. The companionships and friendships 
formed then have been not only delightful memories, but in some 
cases have been renewed and continued up to the present time. 
It would be delightful to me once more to tread the soil of my 
Alma Mater, and to renew some of the old companionships and 
friendships which I hold in such fond remembrance, but my 
engagements will not permit. 

EuTH S. Murray, New Bedford, Mass. 

Please accept the expression of my wishes that Haverford 



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may gain strength and vigor with each new year. I desire that 
from this College may be sent forth an earnest band of Christian 
workers, who, consecrating their mental powers to the Lord, may 
be able instruments in His hands in spreading the principles of 
our early Friends. 

Timothy Nicholson, Richmond, Ind. 

I had anticipated very great pleasure and profit from the occa- 
sion itself and from meeting a number of my very dear friends, 
and renewing the acquaintance of the students from 1855 to 
1861 — the exact middle period between 1833 and 1883. 

I expect grand results from the convocation to Haverford 
College, and to the educational interests of Friends in all parts 
of our country. 

William P. Pinkham, Earlham College, Ind. 

Haverford seems much nearer to our hearts within the past 
few years than formerly, and several of us would gladly be with 
you if it were jDracticable. 

John Elliott, Jr., Santa Cruz, Cal. 

I have not forgotten Haverford or the tasteful and accom- 
plished Daniel B. Smith, and the learned mathematician, John 
Gum mere. May they rest in peace. 

Thomas Clark, Webster, Ind. 

I owe so much gratitude and respect to Haverford and her 
friends that I should have been very glad to be with you on this 
occasion to honor her, and view with my own eyes her improve- 
ments and mingle in your company. It was twenty-five years 
ago, the 13th of Seventh mo. last, since the boys at Haverford put 
me on the bench and carried me around the magnolia tree, and 
then called upon me to make a good-bye speech to school days 
and plays. My class agreed to meet in ten years, if possible, if 
not then, at least in twenty-five years. The longest day then 
mentioned has come, and still I am not among them. I protest 
I love them every one, and would gladly be with them on this 
occasion. 

And the Dorian C. C, if it still lives, may it live long and 
commemorate the triumph of its first eleven, more than a quarter 



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of a century ago — Ed. Bettle bowling and Tom Clark catching. 
But I cannot forget that if I should be there, I should not meet 
you as we parted in 1858. The head of our class, S. T. Satter- 
thwaite, has gone from sight beneath the sod. The short-stop of 
our club, who could catch the balls whether they flew high or 
flew low, my own dear brother, Lindley, he too has been stricken 
down just as life seemed to be begun. I should also miss tliose 
dear brothers, William G. and Edward Rhoads, and know not 
how many others. 

John S. Witmee, Paradise, Pa. 

It is a cause of deep regret to me that circumstances will not 
admit of my mingling again with tiie Haverfordian host on this 
most interesting occasion, but my best wishes will be with you 
and the hope that the day wfll be one of the fullest enjoyment 
for all Haverfordians. 

George H. Parsons, Colorado Springs, Colo. 

Nothing would give me more pleasure than to be present on 
such a memorable occasion, and it is only the vast amount of ter- 
ritory between us that keeps me away. 

Joseph Tillinghast, New Bedford, Mass. 

I regret exceedingly not being able to have the pleasure of re- 
visiting the scenes of 1850 and 1851, which are so dear to me 
yet. 

Charles Osborne, Vassalboro, Maine. 

When I received the invitation to attend the Semi-Centennial 
of the founding of Haverford School, it seemed almost like a 
voice from the long buried past, for I was a student from the 
spring of 1836 to the spring of 1837, the first one from New 
England, and some who were present at the opening were still 
there. I rejoice that the school has prospered. I hope that its 
usefulness has increased with its increased boundaries and with 
its more imposing name ; that it will have better teachers than 
it had in its infancy, I doubt. The elder and younger Gum- 
mere and Daniel B. Smith, with minds richly endowed, were ever 
ready and glad to impart of their rich scientific and intellectual 
stores. How many of those earlier students are living, I know 



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not, probably but few. B. Wyatt Wistar, the refined and hand- 
some, with jjoetical talents of no mean order, though exercised 
by stealth ; Lindley Fisher, ■whose literary aims were high, laid 
down by the wayside long ago; the insatiate sea has certainly 
claimed one, and recently Charles L. Sharpless has " quietly 
folded his tent " and gone. Tlie three named were classmates 
of mine. 

Many years since when the school suffered a partial eclipse 
and efforts were made for the removal of the shadow, or its 
cause, I received a call to be present and responded, expressing 
a hope that it might rise from its dark state, and become M'hat 
its founders wished it to be, and that its released and scattered 
students "might meet again and again on the very spot of their 
eai'liest and happiest union, hallowed by a thousand endearing 
recollections of the 2:)ast." 

That happy experience has never been mine, to my great 
regret, and I am not to be with you at this time, yet I Avould send 
a word of greeting from the cradle of their Alma Mater to those 
who are enjoying the favors of its noonday strength. May all 
your aims be high and for t.lie benefit of your fellow-men, as 
" ever in the great Taskmaster's eye," actuated by a loftier in- 
spiration than the clarion voice of fame. IMay we all listen 
daily to the still small voice, " heard in Gain's silence or througli 
Glory's din," and may the prayers be fulfilled of those who were 
instrumental in creating this seminary of learning, and of all 
good men and women whose hopes were high as the walls of 
Haverford rose from the clod, that it might be a blessing to the 
sons and daughters of men. 

Liberal studies and all the literary institutions of the laud 
liave no words of power to open the Everlasting Gates, no 
charm to " teach rooted sorrow the lesson of submission," no 
enchantment potent enough to break oiir stony hearts, regenerate 
our fallen natures, and thrill them with the immortal joys of 
those who have been born again of the " incorruptible seed and 
word of our God." That sublime prerogative still belongs to 
Him who said, when the world lay in darkness, " Let there be 
light," and there was light. Let us become broken suppliants 
at His feet, fervently asking and patiently waiting for his illu- 



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rainating ray to fall upon our pathway, sanctifying our acquire- 
ments and our daily lives. 

John C. Coebit, Odessa, Del. 

Accept best wishes for the future success of the College at 
which my brothers, my sons, and myself have been educated. 

W. J. Hull, Baltimore, Md. 

I cau only send my best wishes for a happy reunion of old 
school-fellows who have been so widely parted. 

H. A. Staekey, Sanborn, Dakota. 

I have to decline the kind invitation owing to the pressure of 
business and the fact that I am at present quite a distance from 
my ever fondly loved Alma Mater. 

Joseph Moore, New Garden, N. C. 

I rejoice in the prospect of a great jubilee for old Haver- 
fordians, and also that mucli good will result to the College from 
the occasion. 

Moses C. Stevens, Lafayette, Ind. 

My duties are such that I cannot be spared from my post at 
that time, but trust that goodly numbers of Haverfordians will 
be present on t!ie occasion, and that you will have a pleasant 
reunion. 

Cyrus Lindley, Crawfordsville, Ind. 

It is a glorious arrangement, and it does look as if all of us 
old boys ought to be there, and I think no one will enjoy tlie 
occasion more than I should. Surely no one has more interest- 
ing reminiscences of college life than I. Haverford and vicinity 
are sacred to me. Every field and forest I have rambled o'er 
and o'er in company with my intimate friend whose precious 
life was so early sacrificed in the Civil War. 

Edward B. Taylor, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

I sincerely trust you will have a large turnout, and that 
nothing will occur to mar the festivities of the day. I know of 
nothing that would aiFord me greater pleasure than to be with 
you. 



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Wm. F. Perry, New Paltz, N". Y. 

You have ray best wishes for a jjleasant and prosperous time 
for the glory of our Ahiia Mater who has done so much for us 
all. 

Elizabeth B. Hopkins, Richmond, Ind. 
I feel a Avarm interest in all that pertains to Haverford, where 
I spent twelve years of my life so pleasantly. 

Allen J. Tomlinson, Bush Hill, N. C. 

Nothing could afford me more pleasure than to visit that be- 
loved institution and its hallowed associations, but circumstances 
beyond my control will not permit. 

Bart. Wistar, AVellington, Ontario, Canada. 
I have two fine boys growing up rapidly and some day I hope 
they will call Haverford their Alma Mater. 

John Hunn, Coosaw, S. C. > 

About two years ago I had the pleasure of seeing my old pre- 
ceptor, Daniel B. Smith, at his house in Germantown. I had 
not seen him for forty-three years. That meeting I shall hold 
in pleasant remembrance while life lasts. I am now sixty-five 
years old, but the pleasant days I spent at Haverford will always 
live in my memory. 

J. H. Stuart, M. D., Minneapolis, Minn. 

No spot that I have yet learned to love is so dear to me as 
Haverford. I gratefully acknowledge the blessing the dear old 
Alma Mater has been to me. How ranch I should love to 
revisit her at this time. 

H. L. WiLBTjR, Amherst, Mass. 

I regret to say that the jealousy of my present Alma INIater 
forbids my attendance on my former one. 

James B. Parsons, Litchfield, Conn. 

I have always had a great desire for the prosperity of the in- 
stitution on various considerations, and esjiecially from the warm 
and active interest taken by my honored father in its establish- 
ment and success. 



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BENjAMiisr Tucker, Bethlehem, N. H. 

I should be exoeeding glad to be present. Tiiirty years ago 
this fall I left there and have not been there since, but hope you 
will have a large gathering and wish all success to Haverford. 

Louis Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Although more than thirty years have passed away since I 
was a student at Haverford, I still look back upon this period 
of my life, as one filled up with the most pleasant associations. 
A large proportion of those we then knew have long since passed 
away into the life beyond the grave, while here and there one is 
left to be an ornament to the Church of Christ, and a light in the 
world. 

Wm. H. Barney, Mobile, Ala. 

It would afford me great pleasure to meet my old classmates 
once more, but business engagements prevent. 

Charles E. Cox, Le Grand, Iowa. 

Haverford's beginning was small, the "school" Avith her 
twenty-one pupils (boys of thirteen, were they not ?) " guarded " 
in all their movements, has had her ups and downs, but has grown 
in numbers and has added building to building, advantage to 
advantage, and has sent out her children to all parts of this great 
republic to become leaders in every department they enter. 
Haverfordians have long contributed to the wealth and intellect- 
ual prosperity of this young State. May tliis celebration send 
each man back to his home with youthful hopes and energies re- 
vived, and with a new inspiration to make the world better for 
his living in it. 

Henry Barrow, New York. 

I should like much to be with you, but cannot. My remem- 
brance as a scholar forty years ago, under dear old Daniel B. 
Smith as Principal, brings to mind none but very pleasant 
thoughts. I hope you may have a goodly representation of the 
beneficiaries of the College. 

WiLMOT E. Jones, Providence, R. I. 

It is indeed a very welcome anniversary, and it is but right 



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for all true Haverfordlans to meet and award all honors to their 
kind mother. It is a time for generous impulses. May the 
day be rich in fruits of joy and rejoicing with noblest feelings. 
At the end of the century from the foundation I hope to be 
among those who shall meet, as you are soon to meet, to hail the 
return of this glad anniversary which you now celebrate. I 
want my interest in Haverford to be as large and as practical as 
that of any of her sons. This at least is my hope. 

F. D. Jones, Fort Wayne, Ind. 

Your kind invitation brings back so many pleasant recollec- 
tions of profitable days spent at Haverford that it is hard for me 
to decline. 

It is a matter of congratulation that the institution has pros- 
pered so well and proved such a blessing to so many young 
Friends, and that its usefulness is increasing under the present 
management. 

Abram Tabee, New Bedford, Mass. 

" Circumstances repugnant to the acquiesce reluctantly compel 
me to decline the invite," but I coi-dially join in the good wishes 
and the good fellowship which will make the occasion a red 
letter day for those who can attend. 

B. Frank Eshleman, Lancaster, Pa. 

Please enter me for the most incompetent of all incompetents 
for the veteran game of cricket. My bowling has always been 
underhanded. 

S. C. Collins, Chappaqua, N. Y. 

I find on a certain programme the clearly-cut English of cer- 
tain clearly-cut gentlemen who used to be counted sort of base- 
ball cricketers, warranted to hold high balls, flying obliquely 
toward the road and toward Llewellyn's. 

I myself now play more than in those days (in which I played 
not at all) ; in fact, better enjoy life in every way, and so am the 
better fitted to hear from those who always did enjoy themselves 
" intuitively " and a priori. 
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I am glad, too, to find on the invitation the name of a man 
whom I remember when he was in next the smallest seat at 
Westtown and as blowing himself up with burning gas at Haver- 
ford that he might be purified and ennobled and anointed Avith 
oil to become the father (no longer "son") of post-graduate 
cricket. I'll not take part in any of those games. A rural 
" drive " of mine might raise blisters on the luxurious alumni. 
I'll stay here and send my love and affection (one for the base- 
ball and the other for the cricket), which love and affection can 
be muffed without remorse and without detriment to the game. 

Letters expressing regrets at not being able to attend'and good 
wishes for the success of the celebration were also received from : 



President Eliot, 

President Gil man, 

Henry Cromwell, 
John S. Harris, 
Professor C. W. Pearson, 
W. F. Smith, 
James Dennis, Jr., 
Eobert B. Warder, 
Walter F. Price, 
Ellis H. Yarnall, 
AVm. W. Colket, 
Roberts Vaux, 
Wm. W. Underliill, 
Samuel H. Hill, 
J. P. Edwards, 
Benj. H. Smith, 
Joseph Rhoads, Jr., 
Geo. B. Kirkbride, 
John R. Vail, 
J. Henley Morgan, 
B. L. Crew, 
L. L. Hobbs, 
W. W. Pharo, 



Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 
more, Md. 

New York City. 

Fountain City, Ind. 

Earlham College, Ind. 

McConnellsville, Ohio. 

East Providence, E. I. 

Purdue University, Ind. 

Cambridge, Mass. 

Philadelphia. 

Philadelphia. 

Philadelphia. 

New York. 

Minneapolis, Minn. 

Nashville, Tenn. 

Denver, Col. 

Plainfield, Ind. 

Minneapolis, Ind. 

Crittenden, Ariz. 

Kansas City, Mo. 

Richmond, Ohio. 

New Garden, N. C. 

Tuckerton, N. J. 



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Jacob P. Jones, 
Edward B. Garrigues, 
Robert Valentine, 
Richard Wistar, 
Alex. A. Richmond, 
Richard L. Folwell, 
J. W. Pinkham, M. D., 
Robert Underbill, 
Wm. Jacob, 
Jonathan Dickinson, 
J. H. Haines, 
James L. Lynch, 



Philadelphia. 
Philadelphia. 
Bellefonte, Pa. 
Philadelphia. 
New York City. 
Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 
Mont Clair, N. J. 
Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
Mansfield, Mass. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Collins, N. Y. 
Marshall, Mo. 



APPENDIX. 



HAVER FORD SCHOOL. 1833. HAVER FORD COLLEGE, 1883- 

SEMI-CENTENNIAL. 

To ALL Haveefoedians : 

On the 28th day of Tenth month, 1833, Haverford School was 
opened with twenty-one scholars. It has been deemed well by the 
Society of the Alumni of Haverford College (the outgrowth of that 
modest school) to celebrate appropriately the fiftieth anniversary 
of its foundation, and to this end arrangements have been perfected 
to invite to the College, on the 27th day of the Tenth month, 1883, 
all those who have at any time been of the brotherhood of her 
students. The early part of the day will be devoted to athletic 
pastimes and to viewing the halls and grounds ; luncheon will be 
served about midday ; in the afternoon will be held a public meet- 
ing of the Alumni Association, at which will be delivered the 
address by John B. Garrett, of Philadelphia (1854), and a poem by 
Francis B. Gum mere, of New Bedford (1872), to be followed by a 
supper in the evening for ex-students of Haverford. 

The invitation sent herewith it is earne.=tly hoped will be accepted 
by the recipient, who is most cordially invited to revisit his Alma 
Mater as the guest of the Alumni Association. In the interests of 
the College to which we owe a lasting debt of gratitude and affec- 
tion, and in whose present standing and repute we feel such a pride — 
for the sake of the others who would fain see your faces once again 
— and that you may live over for a space the days of your youth, 
" the dear, the brief, the forever remembered," we ask your presence. 

It is particularly requested that an immediate answer to the 
inclosed card of invitation be sent to Joseph Parrish, No. 323 
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, and that such of you as can be with 
us shall state whether you intend to bring with you any members 
of your immediate families, whose welcome shall be as hearty as 

your own. 

Joseph Paeeish, Chairman. 

■ Thomas Chase, James C. Thomas, 

Edwaed Bettle, Je., Edwaed C. Sampson, 

Isaac F. Wood, Heney T. Coates, 

Committee on Invitations. 
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1833. 1883. 

HAVERFORD COLLEGE, 

SEMI-CENTENNIAL. 

Tenth Month 27th, 1883. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DAY. 



Trains will run from the Peunsylvania Railroad Depot, Broad 
and Market Streets, from Philadelphia to Haverford College, at 
7.15, 7.45, 8.15, 8.45, 10.15, and 11.45 a. m., and 12.45, 1.45, 2.15, 
2.45, 8.15, 3.45, 4.15. 4.45, 5.15, 5.45, 6.15 and 6.45 p. m. 

Visitors should allow ample time to obtain Excursion Tickets to 
Haverford College, at Broad Street Station. The railroad checks 
are not tickets. 

Return trains from Haverford College to Philadelphia, at 12.51, 
2.21, 3.21, 3.51, 4.36, 5.51, 6.21, 7.21, 7.51, 8.51, 9.21, 10.21, and 
11.21 p. M. 

A Special Train will leave Haverford College for Philadelphia 
at 10.40 p. M. 

A.n attendance of over six hundred is assured, including repre- 
sentatives of every class since the foundation ; and it is hoped that 
many who have not accepted, will yet be able to do so. 

All ex-students are particularly requested, immediately upon 
arrival, to register in a book for the purpose, kept in the collection 
room, at Barclay Hall. This is important, as the book will be 
presented to the College Library. 

The ladies' cloak room is in the east end of Founders' Hall, first 
floor. 

The gentlemen's cloak room is in Barclay Hall, north end of 
basement, entrance opposite Founders' Hall. 

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Accommodation for horses and carriages is provided in the 
woods north of the College. 

Any further information will be furnished by members of the 
Reception Committee, who will be designated by badges, and whose 
office will be in Barclay Hall. 

Cricket ground adjoining Maple Avenue. Base-ball ground is 
by the Observatory. Foot-ball ground is on the north side of 
Pounders' Hall. Lawn tennis courts adjoin Founders' Hall. 

Luncheon will be served on the first floor of Founders' Hall, 
from 1 to 2.30 P. m. 

A game of Rugby foot-ball will be played, (Junior Class vs. The 
College) at 2 p. m., on the base-ball ground. 

The public meeting of the Alumni Association will be held in 
Alumni Hall, at 3.30 p. m. 

Supper for Haverfordians and invited guests will be served on 
the first floor of Founders' Hall, at 6.30 p. m. 

After supper an informal meeting of Haverfordians will be held 
under the lindens in front of Founders' Hall, when remarks may be 
expected from many of the brethren, and a number of very inter- 
esting letters from former sons of Haverford will be read. Should 
the weather be inclement the meeting will take place in Alumni 
Hall. 

The College quadrangle will be illuminated in the evening by the 
Thomson-Houston electric light. 

By order of 

Committee on Invitations. 



1833-1883. 

SEMI-(iENiPENNIAL ^ELEBI^AIFION 



OP WHB FOUHDAWION OH 



r^AYEi^Por^D School in 1833 



Rm 



I^AYBI^POr^D (gOLLEGB 

©EN1IH CQONTH 2Y1IH, 1883. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The Alumni Committee, in cliarge of Athletic Sports, have ar- 
ranged for games according to the programme on the following page. 
It is expected that a sufficient number of old students will attend to 
allow this programme to be carried out as proposed. The large 
number of students now at the College will supply any deficiency. 

It 'will assist the Committee, if ex-students who intend to take 
part will notify the Chairman, No. 523 Market Street, Philadel- 
phia, and state which game they prefer. 

The cricket matches will begin at 9.30 A. m,, and the base-ball 
match at 11 A. m. Players should be on hand promptly at begin- 
ning of the games, otherwise their places will be filled. 

Howard Comfoet, 1870, 

Chairman. 

Henry Cope, 1869. William H. Haines, 1871. 

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PROGRAMME. 



A VeteEans' Game of Cricket, in which only the incompetent 
•will participate ; underhand bowling only permitted. 

A Players' Game of Cricket, for those who indulge in the game 
habitually or occasionally. Another game can be played on the 
ground if necessary. 

A Game of Base-ball, to be played according to the rules in vogue 
ten or fifteen years ago : honest pitching instead of curved 
throwing. 

A Game of Foot-ball, on the most liberal principles. 

Lawn-Tennis Courts, as many as necessary, will be prepared. 
Those intending to play will please bring their own rackets ; with 
this exception, all necessary implements will be provided. 



'rains leave Broad Street Station at 7.45, 8.15, 8.45, 10.15 A. M. 



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ORATION 

DELIVERED BEFORE THE 

Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting 

OF THE 

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

OF 

HAVERFORD COLLEGE, 

TENTH MONTH 4th, 1884, 

BY 

JAMES TYSON, A. M., M. D., 

OF THE CLASS OF 1860. 



THE REQUIREMENTS OF A MODERN COLLEGE 
EDUCATION. 

" Inoedis per ignes suppositos cineri doloso." 

These are the words of warning written me by one whom 
Haverford has known as student, teacher, and distinguished 
alumnus, and I as classmate, and valued friend of more than 
five and twenty years, on learning that I would speak to-day 
of college education. Doubtless, it would have been well for 
me and for you had this warning been heeded. But like the 
moth irresistibly drawn to the flame which destroys it, I seem 
impelled to this topic of burning importance, although conscious 
that I shall fall far short of its adequate treatment. Certain it 
is, too, that I cannot claim excuse because the subject has 
lacked consideration at the hands of others well qualified to 
discuss it. For it is as little likely to be disputed as to be com- 
plained of that college education has received more and closer 
attention in the past quarter of a century than during any like 
period in its history. Notwithstanding this, there remain 
decided differences in the views of those whose knowledge, 
training, and experience qualify them to speak with authority. 
It has been well said by one* who possesses all the essentials of 
authority named, that a great obstacle in the way of a correct 
conclusion is "the common belief of most educated men in the 
indispensableness of the subjects in which they were themselves 
instructed." To this should be added the belief of many in the 
uselessness of that in which they have not been instructed. It 
must be admitted that we are all the victims of prejudice, and I 
will not attempt to decide which of the two categories con- 
tains the larger number, although I believe that it will be 

* Professor Eliot, paper read before the members of Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, February 22d, 1884. 

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generally conceded that the latter includes at least as many as 
the former. 

What has been the general result of the discussion up to the 
present time is not difficult to indicate. In general it may be 
said that the attention given to the study of English and English 
literature has been increased, that to natural sciences and modern 
languages has been greatly increased, and that to mathematics 
and the classics diminished. The statement with regard to the 
last two, requires, however, some modification, at least so far as 
the older colleges are concerned, indeed, all those existing twenty- 
five years ago. Opportunities even ampler than those afforded 
at that time are now given to those who desire them, but these 
studies are made more largely elective. Indeed, it should be 
said that one of the most important results of the discussion has 
been that the system of electing studies is more general. . Fur- 
ther enlarged elective opportunities are offered in the Semitic 
and Indo-Iranian languages, more particularly at Harvard 
College. 

In a number of younger colleges which have arisen within 
this period, particularly in the West and South, the secondary 
importance attached to the classics is seen in the fact that they, 
and especially the Greek, are no longer required for admission, 
even of the candidate for the B. A. degree. With regard to 
some of these colleges, at least, there is sufficient cause to believe 
that the reason for this omission lies in the fact that were tliese 
languages required the colleges would cease to exist. They are, 
in truth, colleges in name but not in fact. 

A further effect of these changes has been to modify the title 
of degrees conferred. It has appeared to most governing bodies 
that the degree of Bachelor of Arts should no longer be con- 
ferred upon those students in whose courses of study the classics 
are altogether substituted by a larger proportion of scientific or 
technical studies. To such the degree of Bachelor of Science 
or Bachelor of Philosophy is given, or Bachelor of Civil or 
Mining Engineering where technical studies preparatory to pro- 
fessional life have been pursued. Some institutions, as Swarth- 
more College, have provided a degree of Bachelor of Letters 
for those who pursue especially the study of modern languages 



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and literature, including English. It must be admitted that 
the number of these degrees has increased to an unfortunate 
extent. They are so numerous that one is often puzzled to inter- 
pret them, and sometimes the same initials are used to indicate 
different degrees. Within a few days I have seen a diploma 
which conferred the degree of Bachelor of English, the letters 
for which are of course the same as those of Bachelor of Engi- 
neering. It need scarcely be said that reference is here intended 
to degrees in course. It is a healthful sign that the higher, or 
masters' and doctors' degrees are being gradually hedged in by 
wholesome restrictions which make them at once fewer and of 
greater significance. They are, however, still far too numerous, 
and too indiscriminately conferred. 

By common consent the degree of Bachelor of Arts has here- 
tofore been regarded as the mark of a liberal education, and since 
the institution of additional degrees, as implying higher attain- 
ments than most of these. For this degree, in most colleges, the 
study of Latin and Greek is required during a part of a four 
years' course; I)ut in some Greek has been omitted from the re- 
quirements, and at Harvard College, by a recent action, while 
Greek is still required for admission, its continuance is made 
elective. Where Greek is omitted from the requirements, French 
and German arc sometimes substituted. 

It is needless to say that the value of these various degrees 
must depend largely upon the practices of the institution con- 
ferring them, and it is of course not impossible that the man 
j)ossessing a degree in Science or Literature may be more liber- 
ally educated tlian one holding an A. B. degree. Granted, how- 
ever, that a man may have a liberal education without ever 
liaving studied Latin and Greek, no one will deny that he is not 
more liberally educated who has had, in addition to any curricu- 
lum which a college faculty may consider as meeting the re- 
quirements, the further advantage of whatever there is useful 
in the study of the classics. So, too, unquestionably, the modern 
scholar who has added to the requirements of the older cur- 
riculum in which the Latin and Greek claimed a larger share 
of attention, a more intimate knowledge of English literature, 
history, the modern languages with natural and political science. 



78 

is certainly more liberally educated than he who possesses 
the former only. It is plain then that there are liberal educa- 
tions and more liberal educations, but since the A. B. degree 
has heretofore implied that its possessor has devoted considerable 
attention to Latin and Greek, and it still seems desirable that 
such person should have a distinctive title, there can be none 
more appropriate than this time honored one. And if pains be 
taken to exact from him who covets the A. B. degree such 
training as the growth of knowledge in modern times demands, 
in addition to the classics, it can scarcely happen that the man 
untaught in Latin and Greek will have a more liberal education 
than he who has been instructed in these languages. I would 
so add to the requirements for the B. A. as to make it retain the 
pre-eminence it has always held. I would make it mean more 
rather than less. 

The question, therefore, resolves itself into this : Given in a 
boy's life a certain amount of time to be devoted to college edu- 
cation, how shall it be most profitably spent? From the some- 
what indifferent standpoint of one outside of a college faculty 
directly concerned in such instruction, and at the same time in a 
position to watch its results, it appears to me that, ignoring for the 
time being the question as to what constitutes a liberal educa- 
tion, the answer must vary with the intended career of the boy 
and the time at his disposal. It has already been said that the 
development of the natural sciences, the growth of English 
literature, and the demands of modern civilization, justly require 
that more time shall be devoted to English and other modern 
languages, to natural and political science. Now, since it is im- 
possible to give to them the increased time and attention without 
taking from that formerly devoted to the classics, one of two 
things is necessary, either more time must be given, or that for- 
merly devoted to Latin and Greek must be curtailed. 

The idea of extending the college course has not claimed 
much attention, and perhaps at present would not be favorably 
entertained by many. At the same time, much, if not all the 
difficulty in the way of a truly liberal education would be obvi- 
ated by such a course, as I think will prc^sently appear. Con- 
sidering it from the standpoint of a curtailment of the classics. 



79 

the end would be partially accomplished by increasing the 
requirements for admission to college. This has been done 
in some instances, but the general uniformity in these require- 
ments, as adopted by the best colleges throughout the country, 
not by the horde of low-grade schools and so-called uni- 
versities which have sprung up iu the South and West since 
the Rebellion, would go to show that the projier amount is 
about reached. But in so far as it is to be met by a shorten- 
ing of the time formerly devoted to Latin and Greek, it can 
be regulated by the proposed occupation of the student. If 
it be said in reply to this, that many boys enter college 
without a definite idea as to their future career, I say this 
need not be if the attention of the boy, his parents or 
guardians, be directed to the matter as it should be. And if it 
so happen that there are such, they must submit to an election 
by otliers whose experience has qualified them to determine the 
best average course of study, independent of a preparation for a 
future career. Such course I believe to be the ordinary curricu- 
lum for the A. B. degree, as carried out by the better class of 
colleges. 

Given, however, a boy of sixteen to eighteen years of age, 
and who has four years to spend at college, how shall this be 
most ])rofitably occupied in accordance with the idea suggested ? 
In the first place, shall his preparatory education be different, 
according as he may be intended for one of the so-called liberal 
professions, or for engineering, or practical chemistry, for business 
or political life? Here at once we are met with the question of 
languages. All agree that the boy shall be familiar with arith- 
metic and English grammar, be able to spell correctly, to frame a 
fair English sentence, have a general knowledge of geography 
and history, of algebra and plane geometry. What languages 
then shall he prepare ? Now, while I deem it not unreasonable 
to expect a boy to have at least a general idea cf what his future 
career is to be when he enters college, it cannot be expected that 
he should always know much earlier than this. Should this 
happen to be the case, all the better, and the modifications in the 
course of study presently to be suggested may begin at such 
time. Granted, however, that this is not so, the object must be 



80 

to secure a preliminary training which may be a common 
point of departure whence may diverge the different courses 
of study adapted to the various occupations of modern life. 
Indeed, my own observation would go to show that whatever 
the future career of the student, it is most profitable for the 
entire collegiate class to pursue the same studies during the first 
or freshman year, which is, after all, largely a year of molding 
and pruning, of training and development. It is the opinion 
of college professors of large experience with whom I have 
conversed, that the developmental changes produced in the 
student are far more marked during this year of his college life 
than during any other. So surprising is it, indeed, that it is 
sometimes scarcely possible to recognize in the polished and pliant 
sophomore the crude and uncouth freshman of the year previous. 
I hold that in such a preliminary training, the languages, of 
which it is reasonable to demand at least two, should be those 
which aid him most in the study of his own, and prepare hi m 
for the study of such others as may subsequently appear desir- 
able. That the Latin is such a languas-e seems to be a;enerallv 
conceded. I have never met a single person possessing even 
moderate acquirements in Latin, together with a knowledge of 
one or more modern languages, who was not willing to admit 
that his study, not only of French, Spanish, and Italian, but 
also of English, had been greatly facilitated by such knowledge. 
In view of this fact, and this other that the ablest opponents of 
what may be called the older system of college education are 
almost all willing that Latin should retain its place in the 
curricula, I deem it unnecessary to occupy your time with any 
more extended attempt to show that this language should be one 
of those pursued preparatory to college. I will simply add that 
it has occurred to me within the past year to know a boy who 
had had all the advantages of an excellent English school, under 
a master who enjoyed an especial reputation for excellence in 
teaching English grammar. The lad had been subjected to the 
usual drill, had been over and over again the rules of grammar, 
and had made some progress in the study of German, but seemed 
to get no idea of parsing and the construction of sentences until 
he had become well advanced in his Latin studies. 



81 

Much more difficult is it to select the second language. But 
taking the physician's method of diagnosis by exclusion, I quickly 
eliminate the French, which is so easily acquired, taxes the 
mind, relatively, so little, in its acquirement, and is as yet so 
little needed in the every-day of life. By which I do not wish 
to be understood as placing a low estimate on French as an 
accomplishment. On the other hand, it should form a part of 
every liberal education, and in certain occupations it is indispen- 
sable for the highest success. I am simply referring now to the 
time at which it may be most advantageously studied. Personal 
illustrations, I know, are not in the best taste, but I cannot 
refrain from saying that I never spent more than one quarter in 
the systematic study of French, and that was after I left college. 
Yet, thanks to tlie Latin which Haverford gave me, and this 
one quarter's instruction, I can read fairly well the French liter- 
ature of my own profession, and I feel certain that in three 
months of systematic study I could acquire a facility which it 
has taken me years to acquire in German, in which, too, my 
reading is altogether technical. 

The German, on the other hand, with its splendid literature, 
its practical availability, and the discipline which the greatei; 
difficulty in its acquirement exercises, contests strongly with tlie' 
Greek the second place in the preparatory education. Like 
Greek, it is a more difficult language than either the Latin or 
French. It, too, has words corresponding to the Greek particles 
in their delicate shades of meaning and significance, when cor- 
rectly translated. So that, although less difficult than Greek, its 
disciplinary effect is similar. And while I think it makes very 
little difference which of these languages is studied first if the 
other is to be afterward acquired, I am inclined to believe, on 
account of the possible practical availability of the German to 
one whose college course may be accidentally interfered with, 
that an elective permitting Latin and German, or Latin and 
German with a smaller amount of Greek than is usually de- 
manded, would meet the language requirement. In such case, 
if the B. A. degree is sought, it would, of course, be necessary, 
in accordance with the views already expressed, to prolong the 
study of Greek further into the course than is now done, or 
until wliat is deemed a satisfactory amount is accomplished. 
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82 

Such a condition of admission to college, it appears to me, 
would meet the requirements of any special course of study 
intended to be adapted to the student's future. This preliminary 
education being secured, we are ready to indicate the course to 
be followed, according to the career selected. Is the boy des- 
tined to be a civil engineer ? Then must mathematics, physics, 
and drawing, together with the technical studies proper, be the 
pivotal centre around which everything must move. And since 
the people of existing nations are the sources whence his knowl- 
edge, both present and future, is to come, and especially through 
the medium of French, German, and English writings, the 
languages in which these are found should be especially studied, 
and so thoroughly mastered by the future engineer that they may 
be made available in his every-day business life. Whether with 
all the time that can be allotted to these languages such a mastery 
is possible, is doubtful, but such a start may, at least, be acquired 
as will materially facilitate their continued study, which will be 
stimulated also by the actual requirement of the occupation or 
the ambition of the man. Of equal importance with the languages, 
if not paramount, to the civil engineer, is a knowledge of chemis- 
try, mineralogy, and geology. And to the mining engineer they 
are, of course, paramount. A man thus educated has a technical 
education, and in acquiring it has earned the right to a technical 
degree. He may be said also to have a liberal education, but 
less liberal than one who, although divested of the technical 
training, possesses, in addition to the branches of a liberal educa- 
tion above named, a knowledge of the classics and of their 
literature, of modern literature, and of the natural sciences. And 
if it should happen that the engineer has had the time and oppor- 
tunity to acquire such education, in addition to the technical 
qualifications which best fit him for his business, will he be in 
any way inferior as an engineer? There are no theoretical 
grounds on which one would expect a negative answer, while in 
point of fact it is a matter of experience in America as well as 
Germany that the best civil engineers are those who have had a 
thorough classical training. 

Is the boy to be a practical chemist or geologist ? Here, too, 
the primary and fundamental branches of study after the pre- 



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lirainary training are easily indicated — physics, chemistry, min- 
ei-alogy, geology. Here, too, the modern languages are vastly 
useful, and after these the natural sciences, especially botany, 
and to the geologist, palaeontology. But the advantage of the 
classical training to such students as determined by actual ex- 
periment are set forth in the celebrated Berlin Report. By a 
decree of the Government in December, 1870, the students of 
the Realschule or Scientific Schools of the first class were admit- 
ted to the University of Berlin on a par with those of the Gym- 
nasia or colleges.* At the end of ten years the Philosophical 

* That a correct conception may be obtained of tlie studies and time devoted 
to them in the Prussian Realschule of the first class, as compared witli the 
German Gymnasia, I append a table containing the studies pursued in each 
and the number of hours allotted to each study per week. 

General Plan of Studies of the Prussian Gymnasium : 



Religion, 

German, 

Latin, 

Greek, 

French, 

History and Geography 

Mathematics, 

Physics, 

Natural History, 

Drawing, 

Writing, 

Total number of hours in each week 



VI. 


V. 


IV. 


III. 


II. 


3 


3 


2 


2 


2 


2 


2 


2 


2 


2 


10 


10 


10 


10 


10 






6 


6 


6 




3 


2 


2 


2 


2 


2 


3 


3 


3 


4 


3 


3 


3 


4 
1 


2 


2 




2 




2 


2 


2 






3 


3 








28 


30 


30 


30 


30 



30 



General Plan of Studies of the Prussian Mealsehule of the First Rank. 



Beligion, 

German 

Latin, 

French, 

English, 

Geography and History, 

Physical and Natural Science, 

Mathematics, 

Writing, 

Drawing, 

Total number of hours in each week, . 



VI. 


V. 


IV. 


III. 


II. 


3 


3 


2 


2 


2 


4 


4 


3 


3 


3 


8 


6 


6 


5 


3 




5 


5 


4 
4 


4 
3 


3 


3 


4 


4 


3 


2 


2 


2 


2 


fi 


5 


4 


6 


t) 


5 


3 


4 


2 






2 
30 


2 
31 


2 
32 


2 


3 


32 


32 



32 



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Faculty reported the results of their experience as to the efTect 
of the arrangement, and as a part of the report we have from 
the Professor of Chemistry the statement " that students from 
the Scientific Schools cannot, in this branch of study (chemistry), 
l)e placed on the same plane with the students of the Gymnasia," 
while, according to the unanimous verdict of experienced teachers 
in the departments of mathematics and the natural sciences, 
graduates of the Eealschule are almost without exception over- 
No account is taken in tlie above plans of the hours given to singing and 
gymnastics, or to Hebrew in the Gymnasium, tlie time so devoted falling 
either wJiolly or in part outside of the regular school hours. I and II, and 
generally III, represent two years study each, the others represent single 
years. It will be observed that in the Realschule, Greek is altogether omitted, 
while the time devoted to Latin is reduced nearly one-half; the twenty-six 
hours thus gained, with eleven hours additional, being devoted to English 
and to increase the time already given to German, French, mathematics, and 
the pliysical and natural sciences. 

The German boy enters the Gymnasium and Eealschuleat nine, and leaves 
it at eighteen. The Gymnasium, whicli is usually compared with the 
American College, is not, therefore, strictly comparable to it, since the average 
age of admission here is at least fifteen, and many boys do not enter college 
until eighteen or older. What is known as the Philosophical Faculty of the 
German Universities, as distinguished from the Faculties of Theology, of 
Lmw, and of Medicine, is ratlier comparable to the last two years of the Ameri- 
can College of the first class, including both its Faculty of Arts and Facultv of 
Science. The question of the division of the German Philosophical Faculty 
is one which has for some time agitated the mind of the German Government 
as well as tlie academic circles immediately connected with the instruction, and 
is discussed in the inaugural addresss of Dr. Hoffman, the Professor of Chem- 
istry, on assumingthe Rectorshipof the University of Berlin, on October 15th, 
1880 — an address much quoted, which discusses, too, the question as to 
whether the graduates of the Kealschule shall be admitted to the Universi- 
ties under the same conditions as those of the Gymnasia. This division of 
the Philosophical Faculty, would resolve it into two faculties, of which one 
would include the natural and physical sciences and mathematics, the other, 
philosophy, philology, history, and political science. Another mode of 
division would divide the Philosophical Faculty into three— one for phi- 
lology, history, and philosophy ; one for mathematics and the natural sciences, 
and one for political science. 

This division is generally opposed in Germany and Austria, and has, as yet, 
only taken place in tlie University of Tiibingen and the new University of 
Strassburg, although in the University of Wiirzburg and tliat of Munich the 
Philosophical Faculty is divided into two sections. At Strassburg each sec- 
tion hits its separate dean, but at Wiirzburg both have one dean, who is taken 
from each by turn. 



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taken in the later semesters by students from the Gymnasia, how- 
ever mucli they may excel them in the same branches in the first 
semester.* And although my friend, Professor James, of the 
University of Pennsylvania, claims that the conclusions drawn 
from this report are not justified, as my object at present is only 
to show that the classical training would be a good thing for the 
student of science if he could have it in addition to the modern 
education, I do not think he will accuse me of making an un- 
warranted use of it. Further, it is to be remembered that the 
curricula of the Realschule in Germany contain at least as much 
of Latin as the average American curriculum for the B. A. 
degree. 

Our student will be a physician, and he will be the very best 
that can be made. Here I will say the Latin is indispensable, a 
certain amount of Greek also, while the value of a thorough classi- 
cal training can scarcely be overestimated. No one needs to have 
so well trained a mind as the doctor, for no one has such diffi- 
cult, and at the same time such important problems to solve or 
such shifting will-o'-tlie-wisp-like data. To my mind the fact 
that the articles of the materia medica have still Latin names, 
that prescriptions are written in Latin, and that the Latin is 
still the language of polyglot nations to indicate anatomical 
parts and diseased processes, is a small reason why the student 
of medicine should be well drilled in Latin and Greek. It is 
one of the best balance wheels to his reasoning. 

I have never known a man with a thorough Greek and Latin 
training to become other than a scientific physician. And it is 
of such unspeakable advantage to him in the study of the collat- 
eral sciences, all of which seem indispensable to the cultivated 
physician — physics, chemistry, botany, biology, and even miner- 
alogy and geology — all must be his. What labor of dictionary 
hunting is he saved in his early as well as later reading ! 
Indeed, so rapidly are new words coined in medical science, and 
the sciences collateral to it, that no dictionary can keep pace 
with them. All of these come from the Latin and Greek, and 
are as plain to the good classical scholar as if he had coined 

* Dr. Hoffman's address, p. 31. English translation by Ginn, Heatli & Co. 
Boston, 1883. 



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them himself. And I happen to know that medical students 
sometimes depend exclusively upon their Latin and Greek lexi- 
cons instead of getting a medical dictionary. But to the doctor, 
French and German, and especially German, are equally indis- 
pensable, at least so far as an ability to read them is concerned, 
and he must acquire them sometime in the course of his 
education, professional or preparatory, if he would be a fihy- 
sician of the first rank. Now, having acquired all my 
knowledge of these languages — which although not exhaustive is 
sufScient to enable me to make almost daily use of them — after 
leaving college, with the Haverford training of my day in Latin 
and Greek, I may be pardoned for believing that it is sufficient 
if they be taken up in the Junior year in place of the Latin and 
Greek, which, with sufficient requirement for admission, should 
be concluded by that time by all except those who expect to be- 
come teachers of languages or philologists. 

But while the possession of the foregoing attainments, in 
addition to a thorough professional training and devotion to his 
profession, may be all that is necessary to enable a physician to 
treat disease as successfully as it can be treated, yet nothing 
contributes more to the essentials which go to make a successful 
doctor than the refined ease which grows out of a thorough and 
comprehensive knowledge of English literature and of history, 
and which is further contributed to by the advantages of travel 
and social intercourse. 

So that in the case of the physician there really seems no 
other way than to lengthen the college curriculum ; for it ap- 
pears that he ought to have everything which goes to make up 
a liberal education. But, alas, I am sorry to say he still often 
has least. 

I believe I may say, too, without fear of contradiction, that all 
that I have said of the educational requirements of the doctor, 
outside of his technical ti'aining, is equally true of the teacher, 
the dignity and importance of whose calling, I hold, is second 
to none. 

The law demands less of its students, outside of the 
technical education, than does medicine. The natural sciences 
do not come so close to the lawyer as to the doctor, but a train- 



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iug in them cannot but develop aeuteness of observation and 
the skill in debate which he is so often called upon to exercise. 
The fountain head of law was Rome, and the oratorical power 
which contributes so much to the strength of the lawyer has 
some of its finest illustrations in the Greek and Roman orators, 
who are best studied in the original. History and literature 
are pre-eminently the domain whence the lawyer acquires much 
that makes him elFective and useful, while political economy 
and questions of finance and government are closely collateral 
subjects, which become of paramount importance if he would 
enter upon a political career. I have the authority of Charles 
Francis Adams for saying what my own more limited observa- 
tion has led me to conclude, that the law makes less demand 
upon modern languages for its resources than any profession or 
scientific study, so that it would seem that for the lawyer the 
best preliminary training is the older college course, modified, as 
it now is, by the addition of history, literature, and natural and 
political science. Whether the incalculable advantage of the 
modern languages in the diplomatic service, which is so largely 
recruited from lawyei's, is sufficiently important to require them 
from all law students, I am not prepared to say. 

The ministry, as it is commonly called, has held a peculiar 
position in its relations to liberal education. While it has been 
claimed, on tlie one hand, that not only the Latin and Greek, but 
also the Hebrew and Sanscrit, are the peculiar field of study 
whence is to be obtained all that is potent to make the clergy- 
man efficient and useful — and we find our best scholars in these 
languages among them — yet the most stirring and abiding teach- 
ings have come from those who were illiterate. At the same 
time, there are probably few who will contend that the effective- 
ness of the illiterate preacher might not have been increased by 
a broader culture. And it seems to me that the minister of the 
future must have a broader culture still than is furnished by his 
Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, his philosophy, history, and literature. 
Hereafter the natural sciences must claim his attention equally 
with Biblical and linguistic studies if he will continue to be our 
respected guide in religion and morals. Biology, anatomy of 
the lower animals and of man, must claim a large share of his 



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attention. Provision for such studies is sadly deficient in tlie 
schools especially set apart for the teaching of theology. Neither 
in the Divinity School connected with Harvard University, nor 
at Yale College, do I find such. On the other hand, in the 
Academic department of the College of New Jersey, at Prince- 
ton, I find most liberal arrangements of this kind. 

In my judgment, even m(jre than the physician, should the 
preacher be broadly educated. He should be linguist, natural- 
ist, physicist, well read in literature, expert in debate — indeed, 
should know all things well. He, indeed, ought to have a liberal 
education in its broadest sense. And yet, perhaps, more often 
than physicians are clergymen found one-sided in their training. 

While it must be admitted that it is neither possible nor neces- 
sary in all cases to insist upon a college education as a prerequi- 
site to success in mercantile life, and while there may still be some 
who have not had the advantages of such training, who may dis- 
claim against it as useless and even disadvantageous to the man 
of business, I believe that most will agree with me that where a 
liberal education is possible it is at least no drawback to success. 
If we seek any special line of study which may be peculiarly 
suitable in the preparation for such a career, it must be admitted 
that the modern languages will probably be more useful than 
the dead, and that accounting and political science, rather than 
philosophy, literature, and history, will best serve the future busi- 
ness man. At the same time there can be no more effectual rest 
for a brain wearied with business cares than the fields of natural 
science and of literature. And I am quite sure there would be 
fewer business failures on the one hand and fewer shattered 
minds on the other, if men of business had some scientific hobby 
to which to turn in moments of leisure. It is an interesting 
fact in connection with the recent assemblage of scientists in 
Philadelphia, that so many of our English guests were alike 
conspicuous as scientists and business men. While our own 
country furnishes a few instances of the same kind, they are by 
no means as numerous as they should be for the interests of 
science or business. 

Such, in my opinion, is the common sense of college edu- 
cation. Since it is impossible to compass in the four years of 



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an ordinary curriculum the knowledge accumulated during the 
many centuries of the world's existence, and since a limitation 
has become necessary, the basis of selection naturally becomes 
the future career of the student. That such a career, for its 
highest success, requires different degrees in a liberal education, 
is evident, while it is plain also that in certain professions and 
occupations the most liberal education is more important than 
in others. It would seem that this is the conclusion to Avhieli 
any one must come who looks at both sides of the great question. 

With a decided partiality toward the classical culture, and a 
preference that my own son should pursue a collegiate course, in 
which the study not only of Latin, but of Greek also, precedes 
that of the modern languages, feeling confident that if provi- 
sion is made for the latter in the Junior year, as much and 
more will be accomplished than if they were studied earlier, to 
the exclusion of the classics, I cannot fail to see the force of 
certain arguments brought forward by the advocates of the* 
newer education, and I have endeavored to mold my curricu- 
lum in accordance with them. But I know, too, that it is quite 
possible to add to the older curriculum much that is demanded 
by the growth of knowledge, without materially weakening its 
best features ; and thus there may be added not only the modern 
languages, but also an amount of English literature and of the 
natural sciences which will decidedly broaden the resulting 
culture. < 

I was not aware, until I looked into the matter closely, how 
nearly the present course at Haverford accords with this view, 
which I deem the natural result of a fair and unprejudiced 
examination of the subject. In my time, the Latin and Greek ran 
throughout tlie entire four years, and we were taught no modern 
languages whatever. We were taught chemistry well, better, as 
I afterward learned, than at any contemporary college with which 
I could compare it. And I found that at the medical school which 
I entered, I had no need to study chemistry. Haverford had 
taught me as much, although I am happy to say that the chem- 
istry at that same medical school is a very different thing to-day 
from what it was then. We were well instructed at Haverford in 
the physics of the day ; were taught some geology, but very little 



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botany and no zoology. Now, I note by the catalogue, and one 
can always be sure that what is laid down in Haverford's cata- 
logue is carried out, that the required Latin and Greek terminate 
with the Sophomore year, and yet as much of both is read as in 
my time, while the corresponding hours in the Junior and Senior 
year may be devoted to French, German, Anglo-Saxon, and 
even Hebrew. In addition, there are found botany, zoology, 
anatomy, physiology and hygiene, with extended opportunities 
in English literature. The department of jahilosophy, always 
full, including psychology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, 
natural and revealed religion and logic, is in no way curtailed. 
The additional hours required for the important subjects of a 
modern education, are also partly furnished by making elective 
certain mathematical studies, which, in our day, were required 
throughout the entire course. That the mathematical course of 
that day, which included practical astronomy, was a complete 
one, I infer from the fact that including electives, it contains 
no more to-day than then. Valuable hours are thus secured, 
while sufficient time is still left to secure the training and disci- 
pline which are the ralson d'etre of the higher mathematics to 
those who will not use them practically in after life. 

It is now nearly five and twenty years since the Class of 
1860, of which I was a member, was graduated from Haver- 
ford. In those days no stately Barclay Hall greeted the 
stranger entering our grounds from the east. No Gothic Alumni 
Hall bounded the western view. There was only plain, yellow- 
coated Founders' Hall, which with the Observatory and Gym- 
nasium constituted our College. The old collecting-room, 
which witnessed all our exercises, including those of junior 
exhibition and commencement, is now, I believe, the dining- 
room ; the school room in which all but seniors were then re- 
quired to sit at desks during a part of the day, and an hour in 
the evening, is a class room, and the remainder of the old build- 
ing has been apparently put to altogether new uses, with whicli 
I am not familiar. 

The railroad which wound along our eastern boundary is 
removed, and this change has a confusing effect upon the old 



91 

student returning after long absence. But Haverford, though 
changed and improved, is still, I am glad to say, much the same. 
There are the same societies — the Loganian, the Athenaeum, and 
Everett — and the Dorian Cricket Club, of which I was a mem- 
ber, seems to be the Club of to-day. The sharp crack of the 
cricket bat rings as of old through the clear October air, the 
same old trees look down upon us, and the same shaded walks 
and bowers invite us to linger. The same restfulness pervades, 
the same homelike comfort exists, the same welcome awaits her 
returning sons and revives iu them the slumbering longing for 
the old days forever past. 

The Class of 1860 was a lusty one. Numbering twelve, it was 
the largest graduated up to its date, and has not been often 
exceeded iu this respect since. I have no doubt the united 
stature of tlie men was greater than that of any other twelve 
who were ever graduated, so many tall ones were there among 
us. The class was one of strong individuality, mental as well 
as physical. Who who knew him will ever forget Lindley M. 
Clark ? His slightly bent but still tall and impressive figure, 
his deliberate movement, his gentleness and modesty, united 
with great firmness and strength of purpose, are easily recalled. 
His far-seeing discernment and interest in public affairs bespoke 
for him, had his life been spared, a position in the councils of 
the nation. But his was a physique illy adapted to the confine- 
ment of the close student's life, and symptoms of ill health 
even while among us, were doubtless the earliest manifestations of 
disease which culminated in a fatal consumption, little more than 
a year after he left College. 

A contrast to Clark, in many respects, although always asso- 
ciated Avith him in my mind, was Cyrus Lindley. Quick in 
movement and cheerful in temperament, he was the champion 
walker, and with his friend, the sunny and lamented Dick Chase, 
of " '61," left little unexplored within many miles of Haverford. 
The first of our class to marry, as teacher, farmer, preacher, he 
still lives, reveling, as he writes me, in the memory of those 
blissful Haverford associations. 

No less conspicuous was Silas A. Underbill. As tall as 
Clark, and more erect, I mostly see him towering above all 



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others in the fray of the shinny ground, or resting watchfully 
on his long shinny, awaiting the ball which was sure to go home 
with his well-dii-ectcd blow. Enlisting as a private soldier, and 
continuing such from principle throughout the entire Rebellion, 
he survived its vicissitudes and dangers, and practices law in the 
Brooklyn courts, having thus far escaped the bonds of matrimony. 

William B. Corbit was characterized while at College by his 
enthusiastic devotion to the classics, especially Greek. He 
studied medicine, but the languages, ancient and modern, were 
ever his favorite study, and what was at first a pastime subse- 
quently became an occupation; for in 1874 he entered the ser- 
vice of the Government, assisting the late Dr. Woodward in the 
preparation of the Medical History of the War, in which work 
his accurate and painstaking translations were of 2:)eculiar value. 
He married in 1875, and died in 1882. 

Theodore H. Morris, expert mathematician and cricketer, 
Fred. W. Morris, classical scholar, essayist, and poet, and Rich- 
ard Pancoast, English scholar and humorist, were the triumvirate 
under which the Athenaeum Society reached the acme of a bril- 
liant prosperity in our day. All three are successful business 
men. Theodore H. Morris was the first of our class to send a 
son to Haverford, and Fred. W. will doubtless soon follow his 
example. Pancoast, however, still remains a bachelor. 

Francis Richardson, brilliant in all things, but first of his class 
in mathematics, was also a famous pedestrian, inclined to solitary 
pedestrianism, but was devoted also to "shinny," and was a 
strong man to have on one's side. Nurseryman, farmer, normal 
school superintendent, projector, builder, president of toll-roads 
and bridges, savings bank director, and secretary of a Norfolk 
Civil Service Reform Association, he writes cheerily of the pres- 
ent, although his earlier post-Haverford life was saddened by the 
death of wife and child. 

The general scholarly attainments and a decided ability in 
debate, while at College, led us to believe that John W. Pink- 
ham would probably enter the legal profession. Some of us 
were therefore somewhat surprised to learn that he had graduated 
in medicine, and was practicing in Mont Clair, N. J., where his 
success had been all that could be desired. 



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Who does not recall with pleasure the bashful Willie Corlies, 
on whose lips the smile of pleasure or the curl of contempt were 
alike becoming. An excellent English and Latin scholar, mathe- 
matics were his detestatiou. Soon after leaving College, he en- 
tered mercantile life, which was not much to his taste, and failing 
health led him to seek foreign lands. After traveling for a 
time he settled in Paris, where he led the life of a student and also 
married. Bad health, however, again overtook him, and after 
two years of weary but patient suffering he died of the same fell 
disease which destroyed his classmate, Clark. He is buried at 
Royan, on the coast of France, where a simple stone marks his 
resting-place, located, in accordance with his request, on the 
shore of the ocean which washed his native land. 

And what of him who was thejuuior and has become the learned 
one of our class? Clement L. Smith was scarce seventeen when 
he was graduated, but the germ of the Harvard Latin professor 
lay in the Latin scholar of Haverford, and the oration, "De 
Alexandre Secundo, Russiarum Imperatore," was a fitting com- 
meucement to a career, as stages in which may be mentioned 
assistant professor at Haverford, professor at Swarthmore, tutor, 
assistant professor, aud professor at Harvard. The Dean of the 
College Faculty of Harvard University requires no further touch 
from the brush of liis classmate. 

Such, in brief, has been the fate of the Class of '60. While 
death has removed a fourth of our number, fortune has not been 
unkind to the remainder, and a reasonable success has met our 
efforts in the various paths of life we have chosen, so that in the 
main our lines have fallen in pleasant places. And while it is 
not for us to speak of our merits, I may be indulged to say to 
our revered mother, that I kuow of no demerits of these, her 
twelve sons, the narration of which need put her to the blush 
of shame. 



THE 



SEMI-CENTENNIAL 



COLLEGIAN, 



PUBLISHED EVERY FIFTY YEARS 
BY THE 



HAVERFORD LOGANIAN SOCIETY. 



NUMBER ONB. 



1834-1884. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial Note, .5 

Eepokt op the Semi-Centennial Meeting: 6-38 

Letters, . . . Jos. Walton, John Hunn, C. Sheppard, T. F. Cock, 
F. T. King, B. B. Rowland, C. L. Smith, T. A. 
Hilles, J. L. Lynch, W. B. Jones, J. M. Hamorth, 

B. Ladd, A. Taber, Jos. W. Starr, 6 

Eeminiscences, John Collins, Lloyd P. Smith, Henry Hartshorne, 

James J. Leiick, Bobert Bomne, 16 

Tybo Lingo EEDivivxrs, Franklin E. Paige, 28 

Hibernating, Tliomas S. Biirgess, .... 31 

Remarks, - . . Edward Bettle, Henry Bettle, 35 

A Poem, Hem-y Hartshorne, 36 

Eemabks, . . . Henry C- Brown, Charles Boberts, John B. Garrett, 

Henry Cope, 37 

The First Fifty Years of Havebford, Thomas Kimber, 38 

Havekford : A Vacation Visit, .... James W. Oromwdl, .... 45 

Scholarship and Politics, Philip C. Oairett, 49 

A Greeting, Edward B. Wood, 56 

A Modern Hinbu Eeformer, Charles Wood, 57 

Eeminiscences, Idndley Murray, 65 



The Semi-Centennial Collegian. 



1834-1884. 



EDITORIAL NOTE. 

Near the end of the year 1883 tlie Havebfoed Loganian 
Society bethouglit itself that the fiftieth anniversary of its foun- 
dation was close at hand, and resolved to invite its old members 
to join with it in some fitting celebration of the event. It was 
found that but few weeks remained before the date of tiie anni- 
versary, and it was impossible to make any very elaborate prepa- 
ration for it. It was concluded, however, to provide a supper 
and hold a meeting afterward, at which remarks should be made 
by old members and papers read or presented for publication in 
the form of a semi-centennial number of the old society pajier. 
The Collegian. Considering the shortness of the notice, 
satisfactory provision was made for addresses and papers, and 
we trust that the present publication will not be deemed unworthy 
/)f the literary eliaracter of a society which, almost contemporary 
in its origin with the College itself, has been for fifty years one 
of the most characteristic features of the place, and one of the 
most eifective influences in the intellectual culture and develo])- 
ment of the students. 

Tiie supper was served at seven o'clock on tlie evening of First 
month 21st, 1884, in the new dining-room (formerly the collec- 
tion-room) in Founders' Hall, by the same caterer who had given 
so great satisfaction at the semi-centennial celebration of the Col- 
lege; and the anniversary meeting, of wiiich the first article in 
this paper is a report, was held directly afterward. A gor<dly 
number of old members were present, representing every age, 
from tiie septuagenarian to the last year's graduate, and the occa- 
sion was one of happy reunions and the exchange of pleasant 
reminiscences. It was full of encouragement also to the present 
members, in its manifestation of the honorable history of the 
Society, and in the stimulating suggestion tiiat noblesse oblige. 

6 



REPO.RT 

OF THE 

Semi-Centennial Meeting 

OF THE 

Haverford Loganian Society, First month 21st, 1885. 



Professor Sharpless: 

As President of the Loganian Society, I take great pleasure 
in presenting to you, as presiding officer for the evening, the 
Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, President Chase. 

President Chase : 

Brethren of the Loganian Society : — Although there 
are very many things I should like to say on this great anniver- 
sary, our time is limited, and there is so much of interest to 
come before you that I will detain you only with a few words of 
explanation. The Committee of Arrangements found them- 
selves unexpectedly in the close neighborhood of this celebra- 
tion ; therefore no great preparation could be made, and we 
will trust to the occasion itself, without adhering to any formal 
programme. This meeting is composed both of honorary and 
present members of the Society, and is empowered to act upon any 
business that may come before it independently of any other 
body. 

Before proceeding to the regular business, the announcement 
was made that a large number of letters had been received by 
the Committee on Invitations from old members. Many of 
these were read ; and the following extracts from them have 
been made, as of especial interest : 

Jos. Walton, Moorestown, N. J. : 

I have received a circular, inviting my presence at the Fifti- 
eth Anniversar'y of the Haverford Loganian Society, on tlie 
21st inst. 
6 



I 



The name was suggested, I believe, by my beloved friend and 
preceptor, the late Daniel B. Smith, who was instrumental in its 
organization, and it brings up some very interesting reminis- 
cences in my mind. 

There is some probability that I sliall be so engaged at the 
time of the proposed reunion as to prevent my attendance, so 
that I think it will not be best to include me among those to be 
arranged for. 

John Hunn, Coosaw, S. C. : 

At the formation of your Society, I was present ; and after an 
exciting contest, I was elected Treasurer thereof, and also had 
the gratification of paying to my successor in office the sum of 
six hundred dollars belonging to the said Society. 

I left Haverford during the fall of 1834 (in my sixteenth 
year), and have never seen it since, which I sincerely regret. 

During the year 1882, I spent a month in Philadelphia, and 
had the pleasure of meeting your first President, at his home in 
Germantown, after an interval of forty-three years. He was 
nearly ninety years old, and cheerful and lively as of yore. 
Daniel B. Smith was always loved and respected by his pupils, 
and deservedly so. 

How many of the original founders of the Haverford Logan- 
ian Society are yet in this state of existence ? 

Clarkson Sheppard, Media, Pa. : 

Your kind invitation on behalf of the Haverford Loganian 
Society came to hand this A. m. Upon taking up the pen to 
reply, a reminiscence of school-boy days came freshly into mind. 
It is a narrative in Lindley Murray's compilations, entitled 
"The Vision of Mirza; Exhibiting a Picture of Human Life." 
Comparing this life to a bridge, he says : " I found that it con- 
sisted of three score and ten entire arches, with several broken 
arches," etc. 

Having reached the "broken arches" in my way over the 
bridge, and, withal, having lost much of the zest which once 
gave relish to such scenes and entertainments as your kindness 
invites to, I prefer declining ; and thus early, in accordance with 
your request, inform you of this decision. 



8 

Thos. F. Cock, M. D., New York : 

I did not reply to your kind note of December 25th before 
this because I was awaiting the return of Joseph Walton's 
photograph from the picture framer. To-day, however, I have 
sent the box to your address, per Adams Express, and shall be 
glad to know if it reaches you safely. It is with great pleasure 
that I send it, for I doubt whether Joseph would himself have 
done so, and it will make up a complete representation of the 
the Aviiole of the first das'-. It is not likely that ever again 
you will have a class picture complete. 

It gives me great satisfaction to find the College under such 
excellent administration, and so prosperous that there is no 
likelihood of a return to the early sample. 

In regard to your invitation to be present at the Semi-Cen- 
tennial of the Loganian Society, I am compelled to say, pro- 
spective events, due about that time, will prevent my leaving 
home. And as to a paper relating to the early days of the 
Society, such a narrative would come with much more unction 
from Joseph Walton. He was an original member, and my 
own connection was of later date ; and, moreover, he was one of 
the most constant and useful of its paper readers — I was a regu- 
lar dead-head. The truth is, during my time, the Society was 
in swaddling clothes — merely a committee of the whole school — 
and with jio vitality. Doubtless under different auspices it is 
vigorous, and most certainly it has my best wishes. 

If you could kindly convey these words to the members of 
tlie Society at their Se mi-Centennial meeting, and tell them I 
forbore for their sakes from schoolboy twaddle, you will greatly 
oblige, etc. 

Fkancis T. King, Baltimore : 

I was an original member of the Loganian, and the first office 
I ever held in my life was that of Librarian of this Society ; and 
I well remember, after the lapse of fifty years, how important 
and honorable I considered the position. I have received no 
office since that made as much impression upon me as that did. 

The Loganian was a training-school to us in many ways ; our 
business association with trained teachers in these meetings gave 



us some idea of organizing and conducting business meetings. 
Mucli — I was going to say all — was dne in my day to our be- 
loved President, Daniel B. Smith ; he was a man of large ex- 
perience, being then connected with all the leading literary and 
scientific societies in Philadelphia, and the founder of some of 
them. 

He led us into the investigation of such subjects by discussion 
and reading original essays, and thus developed much latent tal- 
ent and taste for special outside work among the boys, and stim- 
ulated their efforts by going with them on long walks in search 
of flowers and minerals. With his hands full of specimens, he 
illustrated to us, as we hung around him, the beauties and phe- 
nomena in nature. 

I am sorry to say that I have lost the run of the work of the 
Society of late, but I feel sure that other good and able men 
have led you in the same practical way, and now that the stu- 
dents are young men and not boys, that your work and business 
is stronger than it was fifty years ago. 

Robert B. Howland, Union Springs, N. Y. : 
My connection dates back to 1839. Then the library had 
about twenty or thirty volumes. 

Professor Clement L. Smith, Cambridge, Mass. : 
The invitation to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the Lo- 
ganian Society is very tempting, after the taste I have recently 
had of the pleasure of a grand Haverford reunion, and if I 
were either less remote or less busy, I should certainly not deny 
myself the enjoyment of a second pilgrimage to the good old 
place and a second meeting with the " old boys." But being 
both very busy and very far off, I must content myself with 
being present in spirit only, and in wishing all who have the 
privilege of bringing their bodies also to the festival a most 
merry time. 

T. Allen Hilles, "Wilmington, Del. : 

The word " Loganian " means more to some of us than to 
others, James Logan being my grandfather with several "greats" 
prefixed. 



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James L. Lynch, Marshall, Mo. : 

I often feel like a thoughtless son who knew not the daily 
sacrifices made by a loving mother for his comfort and welfare, 
but who, now that the snows upon a thousand hills separate 
him from her, longs to be back in her aifectionate embraces. 

"WiLMOT R. Jones, Providence, E. I. : 

With what pleasure I should respond again to the roll-call, 
always to me the call to an intellectual warfare ! I should like 
to measure arms again with some I might name upon the old 
war-ground. 

The Loganian is a practical educator. Long life and honor for 
all her members ! 

J. M. Hawoeth, Arkansas City, Kansas : 

I should esteem it a very great privilege to be there and enjoy the 
company of those who will convene upon that interesting occasion. 

I fully sympathize with such meetings and reunions, and be- 
lieve them productive of good, beyond even the social opportu- 
nities given. 

Should any of the founders of the Society be there, it will 
certainly be an occasion of great interest to them. But how few 
of the originators of a society are permitted to attend its semi- 
centennial celebration ! They grow old and pass away, while it, 
unbent by time or gray by years, lives on in perpetual youth, 
renewed year by year, and will so continue when the hundredth 
anniversary shall come and go, and most of those who attended 
the former celebration have passed into the silent walks of 
eternity. 

I am here arranging for the opening of an Industrial Indian 
School a few miles from this place, in the Indian Territory, and 
shall be so engaged until too late to avail myself of the privileges 
of your invitation. 

I have just returned from a trip to the Southwestern agencies, 
arranging for children to be sent to this school. Near one hun- 
dred will start as soon as the weather changes sufficiently to 
make it safe for them to travel ; we have had seventeen degrees 
below zero in the past few days. 



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One hundred and twenty-five miles of my journey was in "a 
stage " facing a cold " norwester," mercury below zero at night. 

Four of us started together. One had to he left on the M'ay, at 
a stage station, with feet too badly frozen to venture farther at 
that time. The rest of us came tlirough safely, though I had a 
narrow escape in crossing the river on the ice, which, breaking 
with me, came near giving me a cold water immersion ; by fall- 
ing forward, and thus covering more space, I was enabled to 
crawl to shore, getting off with only one foot and leg wet to my 
knee. The stage being fast in tiie ice, I walked to a ranch a 
mile and a half away, and by a good fire dried my clothing and 
was ready for the journey when the stage came uj) a couple of 
hours later, when I came on very thankful that my accident had 
not been more serious. 

I give you these items simply that you may see that there is a 
good deal of reality in winter traveling on the frontier. 

Benjamin Ladd, Denver, Colo. : 

As it is, I wish to send greetings from my home at the foot 
of the Bookies to the Haverford and Loganian boys of '49, for 
whom I cherish very warm feelings. If I could be with you, I 
should propose a game of foot-ball on the lawn; for though my 
hair is growing gray, my heart is still young, and the thoughts 
of those happy school days make me feel a boy once more. 

Abeam Taber, New Bedford, Mass. : 

I really must protest against the swiftness of your operations. 
You will make a man the rival of Methusaleh before he reaches 
middle age. 

Only a few years ago you Philadelphians invited all the 
world and the rest of mankind to come to you and celebrate a 
Centennial. Emboldened by success, it was only a few weeks 
since that the old school-college went in for a semi-Centeunial, 
and the old green has hardly ceased re-echoing the shouts of the 
boys before you issue your invitation for another. 

It can't be done. Your time isn't calculated for this merid- 
ian. You are like a watch when the balance is out of gear and 
it gets over the twenty-four hours in no time. You are living 
too fast. We all expect young Quakers when they do break 



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loose to make the most of their opportunity;- but two semi-Cen- 
tennials within sixty days is piling on the agony with entirely 
too lavish a hand. 

No. Count me out — no half-way affairs for me. I guess I'll 
wait for the next Centennial ; it can't be far off. 

Joseph W. Starr, Steele City, Neb. : 

The receipt of another token of remembrance from " dear 
Haverford " awakened in me aglow that " biting Boreas, fell and 
doure," though wrought to the frenzy of a Nebraska blizzard, 
could in no wise chill. How gladly would I revisit those aca- 
demic groves, though only to wander in the snow beneath their 
leafless boughs, or through the hall which they shelter, silent of 
footsteps save my own, as I did on the only visit it has been my 
pleasure to make to the old scenes- since I ceased to be a part of 
them — how much more gladly to meet even a few men, gray- 
headed, perhaps, like myself, grown from the ardent and hopeful 
youth, comrades over a quarter of a century ago, to learn what 
life has done for each in the way of achievement and instruction, 
or to speak of those who can never again speak to us of them- 
selves. But the fates will it otherwise, for, deep in that 
" struggle for existence," wholesome or otherwise as we make it, 
I must stay by my pigs and calves to prosper them and me, so 
that my boys, haply, may have opportunity to lay up store of 
pleasant memories, as I have had. Only in thought can I be 
with you at your reunion. With this must I content me, and 
with the knowledge, not without pride, that in my small way I 
am of you, though not toith you. 

How brooding memory warms those old times into new life ! 
The mists of twenty-seven years dissolve into clear ether. Time 
and distance are annihilated, and there seems a very presence of 
those far-off scenes that is fairly startling to me in its reality. 
Indeed, does not my mental vision serve me better than I could 
expect of the outward eye ? At this very moment I am there 
again, there, the old there. I found Haverford changed, revisit- 
ing it after eight' years absence. Still more so should I now. 
The very approach is different. Not nearly so handsome to me 
the new station as the little wooden one, where I have known 



more than one youngster's heart passingly disturbed from its 
accustomed serenity by tiie fair face of a fellow-student's sister. 
The trees are larger; there are other buildings and stranger faces. 
I should find the few acquaintances I should meet altered in 
featui-e, their brains otherwise occupied than by schoolboy 
dreams, and should I turn from their changed voices I could 
find in that straua'er throntr solitude enough to recall other absent 
faces and voices only to remember that some of them are shut in 
and silenced forever by the grave. 

Only think ! This very night, whilst I have been writing, 
my own daughter has been busy packing her trunk to go mmyto 
school, with what of anticipation and aspiration God wots. And 
my own school-days, which time and events, the cares of busi- 
ness, the hardships and dangers of war, the sweet transports of 
love and courtship, tears shed upon quiet little faces, change of 
home, spiritual questionings and struggles — a thousand things — 
should remove so far, are with me still. And with such vivid- 
ness ! I catch myself listening with outward ear for the gruff 
tones of Cyrus Mendenhall, whose mental and physical strength 
had in them so much of promise. Again, at sunny noon I re- 
cline beneath the purple beech, or trudge the dusty village 
street in the falling shades of evening with a boon companion, 
Steve Wood, whose conversational powers delighted me so much. 
"Uncle" Jim Wood, Satterthwaite, Will Rhodes, the Wistars, 
Longstretii, Yarnall, and others are with me in the game of 
foot-ball, the surreptitious use of foils, the recitation-room, at 
the breakfast of " porgies," and in all those old and various 
scenes as distinctly as if I saw and heard them. Or, with Joseph 
Harlan, I am in the observatory, assisting in observations to 
regulate the clock, his face half sad and wholly sober, as if 
looking out with those solemn eyes into that other night, 
" gathering fast," to swallow him from wife and children to 
dwell forever amid the stars he loved so well. Or in the little 
meeting-house I study the countenance of Dr. Swift, after he 
had watched the boys until they had settled into order, increasing 
in seriousness as he gathered " into the quiet," his gaze directed 
through the window farther away than the hills upon the hori- 
zon, a rapt expression of mingled solemnity and tenderness 



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deepening in his face until a tear trickling down his cheek would 
rouse him with a start and a beautiful smile to a sense of his 
surroundings. Dear old Doctor ! how I used to wish I could 
follow his thoughts out the window and far away. I wonder if 
he is training cucumbers out of the windows of heaven ? The 
Doctor's cucumbers were an early lesson to me of how much 
beauty there might be in common things. It was in the little 
meeting-house, also, that I used to hear Samuel Bettle say that 
" Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all iier paths are 
peace," in such tones that I have ever since wished that I could 
walk in them. 

I remember once that Dr. Swift was disciplining me for sup- 
posed misconduct at the table, by requiring my attendance upon 
him in his recitation-room at all hours through the day except 
school hours, and a half hour before each meal allowed me for 
exercise. The Doctor was mistaken as to facts, but shut off my 
attempted explanation with a horrified exclamation, " Stop ! 
stop ! when one tries to justify himself in evil-doing, he is 
doubly lost." So, with a feeling of soreness and rebellion on my 
part (which he readily recognized), and firm determination on 
his part, we sat down to have it out. No further words passed 
between us except his regular injunction, " Return immediately 
after dinner," " Return after school," etc. I took my books with 
me and occupied myself with study, as he did also. It was quite 
a strain upon me, as evidently it was on him. On the third day, 
in the afternoon before supper, my thoughts, unoccupied other- 
wise, reverted to a dead friend, and so dwelt upon my loss that 
I was eventually moved to tears. The tears came suddenly, my 
face toward the Doctor, though not looking at him. With quick 
hand I dashed them away, but his quicker eye had detected 
them. Wonderful change ! With look of intense surprise, of 
pity, of gladness, and, I thought, of self-reproach, he broke 
forth in deep tones, pencil in air, " There ! there ! that will do. 
Thee may go." My first impulse was to tell him he was mis- 
taken ; but as I looked into that face so full of goodness and 
tenderness, of sympathy for me and hope for me, I could not 
find it in my heart to undeceive him. I took my books and 
went silently ; the subject was never mentioned between us ; I 



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always loved him afterward, and I believe he was ever after my 
fast friend. 

But I must cease, tliough I could go on till morning. If the 
perusal of this letter wearies tlie reader, it certainly has not 
wearied the writer. It lias been a delight to be with you for a 
while, even in imagination. 

In conclusion, I wish to declare ray unity with the sentiments 
of Whittier, as expressed to you on a recent occasion, to the effect 
(I cannot quote the words) that the fundamental doctrine of 
Friends of the indwelling of the Divine Mind in the individual 
soul is a great central religious truth which doubt and super- 
stition must alike assail in vain. Would that the breathings of 
that Divine Mind could blow away from Friends (of both 
branches) those lingering vapors of superstition and tradition in 
which is nurtured a ranlier growth of doubt than many realize. 

May Providence [trosper you all and your noble institution, is 
my earnest desire. 

Letters manifesting a cordial interest in the Loganian Society 
were also read from 

Bartholemew W. Beesley, Philadelphia. 

J. P. Edwai-ds, Nashville, Tenn. 

G. A. Barton, Boston, Mass. 

Dr. Levick, Philadelphia. 

D. A. Thompson, Albany, N. Y. 

Samuel E. Hilles, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Prof. William B. Morgan, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. 

Charles F. Brede, Baltimore. 

Jolm Blanchard, Bellefonte, Pa. 

William A. Blair, High Point, N. C. 

Louis Starr, M. D., Philadelphia. 

The other letters expressed very generally, though briefly, 
pleasant memories of the Society and warm wishes for its wel- 
fare. Lloyd P. Smith, in his letter of acceptance, says : "At 
the supper* I should like to say a kvf words on the study of 
Greek, in favor of retaining it as indispensable to the recej^tion 
of a degree." 

* It was deemed best to omit speeches at tlie supper, as the meeting was 
lield directly thereafter. 



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The roll of the honorary members who had accepted tlie invi- 
tation to be present was then called. 

John Collins, Secretary of the first meeting of the Society, 
held First month 21st, 1834, read the minutes of that meeting 
from the original record-book and gave the following address : 

A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT HAVERFORD. 
By John Collins. 

"At a meeting of a number of the students of FTaverford 
School, held First month 21st, 1834, John Collins was appointed 
Secretary. It was unanimously agreed to form an Association 
for mutual improvement in literature and science. Joseph "Wal- 
ton, Jr., John Collins, and B. Wyatt Wistar were ai>pointed a 
Committee to prepare a draft of a Constitution for the govern- 
ment of the Society. 

"Adjourned for one week." 

Thus reads the record of fifty years ago. Again, dear class- 
mates and members of the Loganian Society, we meet to renew 
the acquaintances of " auld lang syne " and exchange friendly 
greetings with those who have succeeded us during that long 
lapse of years ; again we revive the recollection of our boyish 
days, those days tiiat passed so swiftly and yet have left so in- 
delible an impression upon our hearts. Let us, on this memor- 
able occasion, turn over the pages of tiie past and recall a few 
of the early incidents of our Haverford life. 

Some here who are familiar with tlie sketches of Washington 
Irving will not have forgotten the strange feelings of the hero 
of Sleepy Hollow, after his long slumber in the Kaaterskill, on 
returning to his former home. It must have seemed to poor Rip 
but a continuation of his dream. Many a tedious day must have 
elapsed before he fully realized the wondrous change and recog- 
nized in the strange faces peering into his the children of his 
former friends. And thus the lonely man walked among his 
new-born neighbors, till the gentle touch of death laid him to 
sleep forever in his own mountain land. 

With feelings akin to his does your ex-Secretary appear be- 



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fore you to speak of Avliat transpired here long before a majority 
of the present members were boru. Yet there comes up, at the 
same time, the reassuring tliought that ties that erewhile bound us 
to one another in the class-room, spanning the flight of years, con- 
nect us still as classmates in the school of life. Nay, more — as old 
age may show new vigor in second childhood, so our hopes and 
aspirations for the future growth and prosperity of our Alma 
Mater bound with livelier impulse as we meet and gaze on 
younger faces fresh iu the buoyancy of youth. 

Let us, then, look out on the scene that met the eyes of the 
first students of Haverford School in the late fall of 1833. 
Standing on the long piazza on the south side of Founders' Hall, 
there was nothing to indicate what the lawn was to be in after 
years. Fields, divided by post and rail fences, the corn or 
wheat stubble standing here and there mid orchards whose 
gnarled trees showed signs of age and decay, or a clump of 
brushwood varied the landscape. In the middle ground lay the 
long, low farm-house,* where for many years visitors to the 
School could find more congenial accommodation than at the 
Buck Tavern to the north of the institution. The whole view 
was hemmed in by the long reach of gray woods in the distance. 
On the other side of the building the grove of trees in all the 
wildness of nature shut in the prospect, but it was to us an at- 
tractive spot when summer heats came on. Many a lesson was 
learned and rehearsed in those shady walks, and there the youth- 
ful botanist or entomologist began his scientific researches. 
The latter class was so indefatigable that it was said every old 
stump was uprooted and not a single bug or reptile could be 
found within a mile of Haverford. 

To enjoy greater privacy, some of the boys placed seats far up 
among the boughs of the trees, but it is not known to this day 
whether the lessons of such were prepared with more care than 
those studied on terra firma. Our path to the old meeting-house 
led us through these woods, over the West Chester Railroad, on 
a narrow plank bridge. Many a silent sitting did we patiently 
attend, and though to some the unbroken stillness may have been 

*Tliis house stood just within the present lawn, in the low ground not far 
from the barn. 



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irksome, yet doubtless to not a few they were seasons of com- 
munion with Him who " must be worshiped in spirit and in truth." 

As usual with boys, savage or civilized, we had and we en- 
joyed our out-of-door athletic sports. Town or base ball (not 
then reduced to a science), jumping, leap-frog, running, and even 
sawing and splitting wood, were eagerly practiced. Football, in 
fine, frosty weather, was in demand, but in that ignorant age we 
knew nothing of the Rugby game and the rough style of play 
with its conical ball. Few were our in-door amusements when 
rain made the paths around the house almost impassable save on 
narrow boards laid down on the soft and slippery micaceous soil. 
In those early times all music was under ban, and most games 
of chance or skill were prohibited. Yet it happened that the- 
simple jewsharp would find its way to the School, despite all the 
precautions of the Committee. If an offender was detected, the 
harp was at once taken from him and a rebuke administered. 
Yet more and more instruments secretly came, until fas report 
would have it) a barrel had been filled with the tongueless harps. 

The room at the southwest corner of the building was at first 
a sitting-room and library, while the corresponding one at the 
other end of the house was used as a parlor. Between the main 
entrance and the east end was the lecture-room, from which, in 
the fall of 1834, a part was partitioned off to serve for an intro- 
ductory class-room. A water-color sketch* by one of the teachers, 
taken during recess, represents its appearance at the time. At 
one end was a collection of curiosities, prepared specimens of 
birds, coins, varieties of wood, etc. These formed the nucleus 
of the museum now in the second story. In the picture just 
mentioned is seen, through the window, a ball-alley at the side 
of the wood. This, too, may have been the germ of the excel- 
lent gymnasium now adjoining the main building. 

There were bounds, beyond which we were not allowed to pass 
without special permission. The distance around was a mile, 
and one of the then students delighted to make the run every 
day before breakfast, the state of the weather permitting. Others 
attempted the feat, but none could equal the pace of our swift 
runner, whose race was ended long ago. 

"■'Now in the Dining-Eoom. 



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Not long after the opening of Haverford it was judged best 
to engage some one as attendant and care-taker of the boys, both 
ill and out of the house. Whether we, of those times, were 
worse than the present generation we would not decide, but some 
considered such an individual a useless appendage to the man- 
agement of the Scliool and sougiit every means to avoid his 
espionage. The office was abolished on finding tliat the result 
was not satisfactory. 

Part of the second floor was divided into very narrow apart- 
ments, suggestive of solitary confinement. Some of the larger 
boys could readily reach to either side with outstretched arms, 
and the meager furniture consisted of a very narrow bedstead, a 
small cherry wardrobe with two drawers, a smaller table, and a 
minute looking-glass in the plainest possible frame. The out- 
look was from half a window. A correct drawing of one of 
these dormitories is to be seen in Alumni Hall. Other accom- 
modations were much in the same style, yet withal we were con- 
tent. It was the wise policy of the founders of Haverford to 
maintain, as far as possible, a rigid simplicity throughout. Be- 
lieving that strict economy was necessary at the outset, there was 
no wasteful expenditure of money in furniture or mere luxuries. 
Could time be reversed and some now here assembled witness 
the arrangements so familiar to us of the earliest classes, surely 
they would exclaim " Usui, non decori!" 

Yet, fellow-stndents of olden time, can we not congratulate 
those of the present, not only on their more sesthetic taste, but on 
ampler means to gratify it? Unsightly may be the seed hidden 
in the dark earth, but suns and kindly rains will bring the plant 
to light and show the gorgeous beauty of its bloom. And so has 
Haverford blossomed as the rose. Its lawns, its winding walks 
lined with o'erarching trees, the flowering shrubbery, the noble 
hall well named from the learned apologist of Quakerism, and 
that, where we now meet to commemorate the past, assure us not 
only that our forefathers knew well on what foundation they 
laid this noble College, but guarantee its prosperity, perhaps for 
centuries to come. 

But now turn we to social life at Haverford in its earliest 
days. Few in number, our interests, our sports, and even our 



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studies brought us nearer to one another than otherwise would 
have been the case. Our teachers, too, had greater opportunity 
to note our individual characters. An almost pai-ental tie existed 
between them and some of the boys, rendering the restraints 
of discipline almost unnecessary. They loved to watch our 
sports upon the playground, and could enjoy a hearty laugh 
with us when occasion would prompt it. How often do we 
remember with what zest friend Samuel Ililles would carry a 
laro-e basket of apples to the unplanted lawn on the south front, 
and, after pretending to scatter them far and wide on one side, 
would suddenly turn and throw them on the other, causing the 
most eager to come in for the least share in the scramble. 
Uniformly kind in manner he won the respect of every one, yet 
could, when need was, administer a scathing rebuke with the 
friendliest feeling toward the oifender. With equal sympathy 
and unanimity did his amiable wife attend to our personal wants 
in health or sickness, or, in the parlor, lead in lively talk, encour- 
aging each bashful boy to join therein. Dear in our memory 
to this day is the fostering care of these beloved ones, now laid 
to rest in a green old age. As perfumes from flowery climes 
wafted far out to sea refresh the weary mariner homeward 
bound, long may the fragrance of their example animate many a 
one, to follow on to meet them on the other shore. 

A passing tribute is justly due to our venerable teacher of 
moral and intellectual philosophy. After an active city life in 
the cause of science and benevolence, Daniel B. Smith devoted 
himself to education in its varied branches. To some of us he 
was the master-spirit of the place, whether in his own depart- 
ment of moral philosophy, history, chemistry, etc., or as the 
arborist, florist, and naturalist — the almost oracle of our in- 
quiring minds. Well do some of the highest class recollect our 
first lesson in Abercrombie, when Uncle Daniel (as he was par 
exeellence to your speaker) began to teach us to think. Making 
some common-place remark, he asked us in a minute or two to 
recall and tell him the succession of thoughts suggested by what 
he had said. It was an amusing as well as a useful exercise — a 
fit introduction to mental training and consecutive reasoning un- 
familiar to us all. So, too, we learned, as perhaps we had never 



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learned before, the art of studying. From this naturally fol- 
lowed the expression of ideas, first vocally, then in writing. By 
him we were taught to think, to speak, to write. His instruc- 
tions were also peculiarly valuable in the study of classic or of 
foreign languages, giving us a facility, a force, and accuracy of 
rendering not otherwise attainable. He it was that foresaw that 
something apart from our daily lessons was needful for our 
mental improvement and the practical development of the 
knowledge we gained by private study or in the class-room. 
Hence the organization of the Loganian Society, whose fiftieth 
birthday we may thus iitly commemorate by a well-deserved 
encomium of its founder. How far his object has been ac- 
complished, its records may tell in part; but the discipline of the 
mind, the knowledge of parliamentary rules, and the training 
of the diffident tyro in public speaking which it has conferred, 
can be known only by those who, since its formation, have taken 
an active part in its various exercises. 

While the portraits of two of Haverford's noblest preceptors 
adorn these walls, why should not a like memorial of him whose 
worth so many of us can justly acknowledge be placed with 
them honoris causa f 

Nor nmst we forget the venerated name of John Gummere, 
whose rare mathematical ability, evinced by his published works, 
was appreciated by all who came under his iustructiim. Well was 
it for Haverford that the son of such a man, trained in habits of 
accuracy and laborious application, should succeed him in later 
years, not as a mathematician alone, but as a classical scholar, an 
eminent, far-seeing astronomer, a kind and Christian instructor 
and governor. 

With but one word of reference to him who led us through 
the graphic records of Cassar or the delightful poesy of Virgil,. 
we close this brief and imperfect sketch. With what axdor he' 
entered into the lesson for the day, and how vividly the sceneSj. 
the heroes, and the many incidents therein were developed out 
of the misty past, none but they who were taught by him. can: 
truly tell. Long may he live in the memory of his now gray- 
beard scholars ! Long may he enjoy the fruits of his untirino' 
zeal as geographer, biographer, or historian ! 



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As we thus trace the footsteps of some long gone before us, 
let us be animated by the same spirit that actuated tliem. There 
is to each a life-mission, some worlv appointed by our Heavenly 
Father. Hajjpy they who fulfill their allotted taf-k, be it what it 
may, as in His sight and in His service ! 

Classmates of former time, and ye, too, who in later days have 
profited by instructions in these academic shades, accept through 
one of tlie first students at Haverford our warmest congratula- 
tions in thus linking the past with the present. With the 
Christian sentiment of the Pagan sage, " Non nobis solum nati 
sumus," and in the joyful hope that our next reunion may be in 
the presence of our divine Exemplar and Saviour, we bid you 
affectionately, 

Faeeweij,. 



Lloyd P. Smith, Librarian of the Philadelphia Library, 
then read the following 

REMINISCENCES. 

A story is told, I think, in Segur's Histoij-e de la grande 
urmie, of a soldier who, on the retreat from Moscow, managed to 
reach Smolensk, and, staggering into headquarters, reported him- 
self for duty. 

" Who are you ?" said the officer in command. 

Drawing himself up to his full height, and making a military 
salute, " General," he said, "lam the Thirty-seventh Regiment 
of the Line 1" 

I cannot exactly say that I am the Class of 1837, but when I 
look back and see how many of my fellows have perished by the 
way, some at the passage of the Beresina, and again look round 
and see how few survive, I am irresistibly reminded of the cam- 
paign of Moscow. Jonathan Fell is dead; Gustavus Logan is 
dead ; Dickinson Logan, William Longstreth, Benjamin Marsh 
— one of the best of men ; Liddon Pennock, Charles Sharp'ess 
— a man of immense force and versatility, who was bound to 
succeed in everything he undertook ; Wyatt Wistar — amiable 
and good, and last, not least, my own familiar friend, Lindley 



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Fisher, high-toned, brilliant, and ambitious — all these are dead. 
They have gone over to the majority, and we, who survive, will 
join them soon. One generation eometh and another goeth, but 
Haverford, I trust, abideth forever. Tlie honorable toil of so 
many teachers, the laborious tasks of so many students, constitute 
a foundation for great results in time to come. 

I have been requested to give some reminiscences of our com- 
mon Alma Mater in its earlier days — what might be called its 
Paley-olithie period. I could tell of breaking through tlie ice 
at Kelly's dam and walking back to Haverford, wet to my mid- 
dle, and shivering in the bitter wind, but finding in my room a 
package of gingerbread from home, and, better still, some num- 
bers of Waldie's Portfolio ; of quietly getting out of the window 
one First Day evening while dear old John Gnmmere was read- 
ing to us from the Friends' Library, and going with another boy 
down to the dam to take a swim by moonlight ; of seeing the 
trees planted which now constitute the fine avenue from the 
turnpike. But I prefer to speak of him who was for Haverford 
what Arnold was for Rugby, the great teacher, he who gave the 
tone to the school and made Haverford what it was. I mean 
Daniel B. Smith, a man, if ever there was one, of genuine 
culture. Leaving his business and going to Haverford from a 
sense of duty, there to take the chair of natural philosophy, his 
influence was in the direction of liberal studies, of a wide range 
of thought, of an enlarged view of science. On First Day 
afternoons he used to read to us in sympathetic tones from the 
great masters of religious eloquence. One sermon, I recollect, 
was by Robert Hall, on " War," in which the possessor of that 
great wit which was to madness near allied defended war on 
Christian principles. Professor Smith, while himself almost 
carried away by the ringing periods of the book before him, 
warned us against allowing our reason to be taken captive by 
the eloquence of the writer. Once — and this involves a confes- 
sion — when I was guilty of plagiarism, being hard put to it to 
write a composition, instead of scolding me, he merely remarked 
that while it was a useful exercise to read an essay from the 
Spectator and then shut the book and turn it into my own 
language, it did no good to copy the very words. To tell the 



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honest truth, I did not think he would find me out, but he 
did. 

I believe Daniel B. Smith and John Gummere — that devout 
astronomer — have their worthy successors in the devoted pro- 
fessors who hold the fort to-day ; and, remembering what it did 
for me, I pray that tlie Divine blessing may continue to rest on 
dear old Haverford down to the latest generations. Ipse fun- 
davit earn Altissimus : Dominus narrabit, in scripturis populorum 
et prinaipum, horum qui fuerint in ed nomina et facta. 

De. Heney Haetshoene : 

It will interest many present to be reminded that the teacher 
of classics mentioned by John Collins was Dr. Joseph Thomas, 
now recognized as one of the most learned and useful of the 
lexicographers and cyclopaedic writers of this country. 

Associations of my own time as a student at Haverford, in the 
classics, were with William Dennis, valued by us not only as our 
accomplished teacher, but also for his personal geniality, and 
admired by me in the Loganian Society for his facility and 
aptness in debate, at which I often wondered. 

This admiration was the more natural because of my own 
early experience in declamation before the Society. I had to 
" speak a piece," and my choice fell on William Tell's Invocation 
to the Alps. I think that if the legendary apple had been 
placed on my own head, to be shot off by William Tell's arrow, 
I should hardly have been more alarmed. Among the advan- 
tages of recent students at Haverford, one is of more practice, 
at least as Juniors and Seniors, in speaking before others. A 
great deal of such practice is worth while in order to obtain self- 
possession in oratory or debate. 

Two of the subordinate " institutions " (if we may call them 
such) connected with the Loganian Society have left with me in- 
teresting memories — the carpenter shop and the greenhouse. 
To the former of these I did not much resort ; not so much as 
would have been good for me. We had much need for such en- 
couragements then to manipulation; something to help us to learn 
how to use our hands, and our eyes to guide their use. Besides 
our out-of-door games and exercises, there was then in our col- 



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lege life nothing else at all to make even possible this important 
part of education. In this respect great changes Lave occurred 
and are still going on in our time. 

But the greenhouse, whose ruined wall is still venerable in 
our eyes, was much more attractive and, in its way, beneficial. 
Its construction and care at Haverford was a token of fine dis- 
cernment and foresight on the part of our Managers. In those 
days, as we all know, there was much more of the ascetic than 
of the ccsthetic in the views of the Society of Friends. Yet, 
as has been shown by the poetry of Whittier, they were not dead 
to a sense and love of the beautiful. It was well that here on 
this charming spot the young men of the Society should have 
much to develop in them the enjoyment and valuation of the 
high and noble uses of beautJ^ \Ve of that earlier day may 
now congratulate our Alma Mater that she has been able so to 
enlarge and vary her resources, among which the Loganian 
Society has a not unimportant share, as to provide ever-increas- 
ing means for the culture of ail the powers of her students ; 
the beauty of utility and the utility of beauty both being appre- 
ciated and held in view. May her growth and prosperity be 
perpetual ! 

Dr. James J. Levick : 

It is but natural on such an occasion as this that our thoughts 
should be of those who were associated with us here, either as 
preceptors or as fellow-students, and it is therefore not surpris- 
ing that we all speak pretty much the same language to-night. 
Of my own class of eleven, ten are still living. Of our pre- 
ceptors, John Gummere, Daniel B. Smith, and Samuel J. Gum- 
mere all have passed away. 

John Gummere Avas a very remarkable man. Born in the 
country, where but little opportunity for mental culture existed, 
by his own native talent and untiring industry he rose to great 
eminence, and for many years before his death was everywhere 
recognized as one of the most learned mathematicians of his day. 
He was a man of great kindness of heart and of much simplicity 
of character, but this simplicity of character never interfered 
with his ability to teach, or weakened the hold he had on the 



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respect of his pupils. I kuow not what marks his resting-place 
in the little graveyard at Burlington, but were I asked for au 
inscription to be placed on his tomb, I would give it in these 
words : 

"An Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile." 

His son, Samuel J. Gummere, though we did not think so 
then, must have been quite a young man when we were here. 
He was at tiiat time Professor of the Latin and Greek lana-uaiies, 
and later filled the diair of mathematics — in utroque fidelis. It 
is not, however, as our teacher, but rather as a personal friend, 
that we remember Samuel J. Gummere. The great lesson 
taught by his life was this — that tlie best qualification for teach- 
ing young men is to be found, not in mere learning, however 
great it may be, not in discipline, however excellent, but that 
nothing so surely commands respect for the living and so sweetly 
embalms the memory of the dead as does the unmistakable 
evidence in the teacher, of a warm, sincere personal interest in 
the best welfare of his pupil; and that evidence Samuel J. Gum- 
mere gave us largely. 

Of Daniel B. Smith I have lately spoken elsewhere, and in 
the magazine of the Pennsylvania Historical Society a slight 
sketch of his life may be found. I have there said, and I repeat 
it here, " that I do but speak the sentiment of my class when I 
say that Daniel B. Smith was the animating spirit of the place. 
It was he who moulded the character, shaped the destiny, influ- 
enced the future, of its students. What Dr. Arnold was to 
Rugby, Daniel B. Smith was to Haverford." 

One word about the Collegian, then, as now, the organ of the 
Loganian Society. If a deep interest in its success, if able papers, 
and sharp, but just, criticisms be an evidence, it was then "a 
live paper." Besides the prose essays, there were occasional 
poems from the pen of the late Richard H. Lawrence, Robert 
Bowne, of New York, whom we are all so glad to see here to- 
night, and from others. But no poetical contributions were 
more valued than those of Daniel B. Smith, who, always in his 
place as President and a frequent contributor to its journal, 
kept up an active interest in the Loganian Society the like of 
which, I trust, is still maintained by his successors. 



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Robert Bowne : 

I think it a great mistake to call upon me. I never remem- 
ber having made a speech in my life, and I am now too old to 
begin. Besides, other speakers have said the good things that I 
had in mind to say in case I made a speech. One of them 
referred to a slight plagiarism that he once committed. It 
appears to me that all who have preceded me have been guilty 
of plagiarism, for all my best ideas have been appropriated. 

I therefore claim the best things that have been said this 
evening for myself. I can only add, in the words of the school- 
boy's oft repeated declamation : 

"You'd scarce expect one of my age 
To speak in public on tlie stage." 

When I was here at tiie Semi-Centennial I was struck with the 
great age of those then present. They all seemed to me to be 
so very old, gray-headed, and bald ; they seemed as if they had 
to look at the thermometer every morning to see what flannels 
to put on. But greater changes than those of age have taken 
place. Many of our loved associates of younger days have 
passed away, and perhaps their footprints on the sands of time 
may serve to guide us to our haven. Some of us have enjoyed 
quiet lives, others have been led into more tempestuous scenes. 
Perhaps we have seen some poor craft dismantled, and some 
brother go down who may have deserved our sympathy. It is 
notour place to judge. What we may think to be a blemish, 
in God's pure sight 

^ May be a .scar gained in some well-fought field, 

Wliere thou didst either flee or yield. 

After our former associates, I thought of our old professors 
and teachers who are gone, and especially of one who has been 
so niany times referred to to-night, Daniel B. Smith. 

From the professors we pass to the retainers of the old institu- 
tion — Carvell, the gardener, always in hot water with some- 
body ; the colored man, John, the table waiter, called in two 
directions at once, and slow to go in either; the old Auut PoUies 
and Aunt Sallies of those days. Where, too, are the trees under 



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which we used to sit? Look around and see tliese noble build- 
ings which claim our admiring attention. — But one of the queries 
of the Monthly Meeting says that we must not carry our busi- 
ness beyond our ability to manage it. 

Franklin E. Paige then read the following essay for the 
Collegian : 

Although Haverford College is no Sleepy Hollow, still it has 
its Rip Van Winkle, roused up after a more than twenty years' 
sleep, staring bewildered about, and trying to determine whether 
this place is here or somewhere else. The name of this dusty 
antiquary, thus crawling out of his slumber, is Tyro Lingo. 
Some of the old Logauians may remember his various effusions 
that used to appear in the Collegian. Like his prototype, the re- 
nowned Rip, he was a rather jolly soul, of not much account, 
and good at long stories about nothing. He was not, however, 
addicted .to quaffing at Hollands, but he used to take deep pota- 
tions at the Greek and Latin fountains, and the result was that 
Greek, Latin, French, and English became terribly mixed in his 
brain, and the many sesquipedalias* that occurred in his essays, 
composed sometimes of all four of these languages at once, were 
frightful to any reader's jaws. It has been stated that Derrick 
Van Bummel, the schoolmaster of Rip Van Winkle's time, " was 
not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary." 
There was not a word in the dictionary, or out of it, gigantic 
enough to daunt Tyro Lingo. Unlike his prototype in still an- 
other respect, this Tyro had no Dame Lingo to keep him in awe, 
and thereby he contributed to the happiness of at least one of the 
fair sex in that he freed her from the care of a stupid old man. 
So he played his clown's part on the Loganian stage, claimed re- 
lationship with the Greek Longinus, and wrote an essay on the 
sublime; wrote metaphysical essays, in which, like a true meta- 
physician, he got his subject in as hopeless a tangle as a Jersey 
swamp, and his readers completely bewildered; wrote essays 
scientific, historic, hypercritic, and soporific; sounded all the 
depths and shoals of authorship, and generally got stranded on 
the shore of verbosity, till finally he " bade the world good-night," 

* " Sesqidpedcdia Verba." — HoKAOE. Lilerally, words a foot and a half long. 



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and sank into a qiiiot sleep. We will not dwell upon the vari- 
ous strange objects that appeared to him as he awoke from this 
twenty years' sleep and sought his old haunts, as similar ones 
had appeared to his brother Rip — Alumni Hall, Barclay Hall, 
the changed Founders' Hall, the old railroad gone that used tc 
come meandering by. Nor can we stop long to notice the many 
material changes he learned of as having come upon the busy 
world while he was deep in his Van "Winkle slumber. He was 
told, while he stared in vacant stupidity, as Eip before him had 
stared, how news was daily traveling from shore to shore, with 
the broad Atlantic and all the fishes between ; how men can be 
seen at innumerable places talking against the side of a room and 
receivina: answers from others even miles awav ; how a brilliant 
flume will leap from point to point of dull, cold charcoal, with- 
out a spark being applied ; how the dreary war, the great Centen- 
nial, and Oscar Wilde had come and gone; and of the wonders 
of the photographic camera, the microscope, the spectroscope, the 
dynamo machine, and the dude. Many of the readers of the 
Collegian have seen and known all these changes. Old Jupiter 
Pluvius has been superseded by Old Probabilities, who under 
this and other names has been regulating our storms and sun- 
shine for years. It has been stated that a lady not a hundred 
miles from this very College consulted the Weather Bureau at 
Washington as to a favorable time for a garden party, and thus 
finally gathered her guests together on scientific principles — in a 
pouring rain ! Tyro is a man in favor of science, real and 
unadulterated, and such things as these are as pleasing to his 
soul as a word one hundred and ninety-three syllables long. 
Tyro is a metaphysical man, too ; but oh ! how his poor brain 
was tribulated as he tried to get his mind around and absorb 
some of the various new-fangled notions of the day, even as a 
protozoan envelops and absorbs its food. Like his brother Eip, 
his mind misgave him ; he began to doubt whether both he and 
the world around him were not bewitched. They talked to him 
so glibly of the wondrous results of modern researches. It 
was once said that 

"Seven Grecian cities claimed a Homer dead, 
Tlirougli wliicli a living Homer begged his bread." 



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Then, again, it lias been said there was no Homer ; that the 
Iliad and Odyssey were composed by some one else. So the dis- 
pute went on, but now all is cleared up. It has been announced 
in this very College that philological critics have proved that 
these poems were composed, not by Homer, but by another man 
of the same name. And, again, in all the study of heraldry and 
ancestry, how serenely the mind rests upon the assuring truth 
that our first great ancestor was a hairy individual with pointed 
ears and a tail and probably arboreal in his habits. Rather hard 
on the monkeys, 'tis true, but then the seemingly lower animals 
have always had to suffer for man's shortcomings. And what a 
relief to poor Tyro, who used to rouse himself on election morn- 
ing to vote early and as often as permitted, to learn at last that 
the people of every nation are like a lot of last year's sweet po- 
tatoes — " the majority of them are unsound." So the minority 
must now elect. Then be it so, and for Philadelphia let only One 
Hundred men elect. And, again, the laborious processes of 
reasoning are things of the past ; even Whately's Logic, upon 
which Tyro used to feed so voraciously, has become as rusty as 
Rip's old firelock. Says one, " The glasses are but lately ground 
that enable us to see critically the evidences of history." Our 
mental eye then has evidently been astigmatic ; we followed out 
a line of reasoning. Now the properly ground glasses correct 
this, and all knowledge is flashed to a point. And Tyro, after 
wandering about puzzled and doubting, like his prototype, 
whether he was himself or somebody else, has at last had pre- 
sented to him tiie great touchstone of truth. A widely known 
writer, whose mental eye has ranged through the whole universe 
of knowledge, even the nebulse and cometary dust, a relative 
perhaps of the man who years ago taught Haverfordians Latin 
and Greek ])rose composition,* this noted critic has told us that 
the Zeitgeist — the spirit of the age — forbids us to believe in the 
miraculous. So the spirit of the age, one thing to-day and an- 
other thing to-morrow, decides everything for us. Therefore it 
is certain that all this stuff about principles being immortal, this 
idea of eternal and unchangeable truth, the oft-quoted passage 

* Latin Prose Composition and Oreeh Prose Composition, text-books, by 
Tlioinas K. Arnold, were used at Haverford College. 



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of the great Tacitus — "forma mentis ceterna " — are blown to the 
winds — gone "like the baseless fabric of a vision." 

But yet, after all this elucidation, poor Tyro still seems to be 
in the same trouble as was his brother Van Winkle. He can- 
not be made to comprehend all the subtleties that are now around 
him. He is very much puzzled about the gettiug-up of the 
universe. In his younger days he had heard of the old theory 
that the world was on the backs of four elephants ; that the ele- 
phants stood upon four turtles, while there was nothing for the 
turtles to stand upon. Now comes the modern tlieory, and Tyro 
wants another pair of those wonderful spectacles. He gets some 
notion of all the jargon about nebulous mass, whirling about in 
space, throwing off rings and satellites, scattering about worlds 
and systems, the cooling, plicating, crumpling, hardening, and 
eroding of the crusts of individual globes, the evoluting from 
protoplasm of the amoebse, monkeys, and men, but when he asks 
what produces all these effects, he is told it is simply the forces 
of nature. But what is back of and generating these forces of 
nature ? Like the poor turtles in the ancient theory, these forces 
of natui'e find themselves standing upon nothing. 'Tis useless 
to try to grasp all these exegetical abstractions, and Tyro must 
relinquish the attempt. 

"Oh ! these are dreadful changes, friends; 
'!• Men talked of change of yore, 

But there never were such changes, friends, 

In any days before ; 
The world is cracked, depend upon it, 

Old things are all upset. 
We'd best bespeak our coffins, friends ; 
Why are we living yet ?" 

Tyko Lingo. 

A poem by Thomas H. Burgess, sent as a contribution to 
the Collegian, was then read : 

PRIVATE NOTE TO "YE EDITORS." 

Had the writer one more long evening — long enough to winnow the 
accompanying rhymes — he might be less ashamed of the length and of 
the matter; but he must leave to the editors the pleasure (perhaps their 
only salary) of cutting out crude stanzas, or putting the whole into the 



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waste-basket with better things. Should any generous critic lift his 
broadax to hew to the line, let me suggest that it should not be expected 
of one who occasionally gets lost, wandering in tangled, pathless places 
at the foot of Parnassus, to be accurate in diction or consistent in ideas. 
And when Pegasus won't take the bit and is careless where he fetches 
up, one must expect a wild ride or no ride, and is obliged, indeed, to let 
him flutter, and usually gets pitched headlong among the boys just as he 
jumps into the clover. 

As to your semi-centennial of the Loganian Society, I cannot suppose 
that Haverfordians could have a surfeit of these " semi-" love-feasts, 
although I am reminded of a certain religious sect which enjoyed quar- 
terly-meetings so well that they decided to hold them every two weeks. 
I trust no one will suppose that the Loganian is growing old. A college 
may be an old-established institution, but the daughters are not, and I 
can only think of the Loganian as ever youthful, rejoicing in spring's 
" budding miracles " and rich in May-day verdure. I cannot personify 
it as a Sibyl, scattering prophetic leaflets and withering to nothing but 
voice, but rather compare it with other of Haverford's equipments, as 
the Thought Shop, the Mental Gymnasium, the Laboratory of Logic, the 
Observatory, where genius dazzles the meridian and scorches the spider- 
lines in transit, being at once the theatre of wholesome entertainment 
and the arena for hard tugs of rugged rhetoric. Having been the victim 
unpitied in many a defeat in its forum, I trust it may keep its youth and 
usefulness, and lead in the drill and the fray a myriad, at least, of Haver- 
fordians yet unborn, to fit them to fill the vacant places the " old boys" 
are leaving — if they dare do no better — in the happier eras that with 
quick steps are approaching. " Pilgrim." 



HIBERNATING. 

Read at the Semi-Centennial Meeting of the Lo- 
ganian Society. 

In summer heat.s, the city guest 

Climbs to the Catskill's hemlock height, 

And takes, like Rip Van Winkle, rest 

Where twilights guard the couch of night. 

For sleep, give me hibernal air, 

When frost lines vibrate o'er the south, 

When hoary beard a boy may wear 
And zero kindly bar his mouth; 



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"VVheu, Avreathed in snow, the stately fir 
Stands like a bride, her dark hair crowned 

Witli wealth of pearls, and, envying her. 
The jewel-laden pines surround. 

The stoves with anthracite prepare 

(Good things old Horace does not sing), 

And iieaping plates of grape and pear 
Instead of " four-year Sabine " bring. 

Now draw your sofa near the fire, 

Take Shakespeare from a handy shelf. 

Let thoughts of work and care retire, 
And in clear joy forget yourself! 

Heed not the hour, eleven or three, 
Till chaste Miranda gain her right ; 

Hear Ariel sing till he is free. 
And act the hero of each fight. 

Pure thouglit indulge, from earth take flight 
With Plato's winglets (they'll suffice), 

Through iEther's depths, empyrean height, 
Or gulfs of fire, or zones of ice ! 

Leave wise agnostics, plodding hard. 
And scarce believing half they see. 

Though blinder they than sightless bard 
Who sees from laws of vision free ! 

Through windows looking to a sky 

That holds a lucid universe. 
What luxury of thought to lie, 

Forgetting both caress and curse! 

How vocal night ! how light the dark ! 

One seems so near the Pleiades, 
The meteor-tinted sky ! and hark I 

^olian music in the trees. 



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If proof (outside of book or scroll) 

Be asked, of immortality, 
Indulge awhile this flight of soul ; 

It proves eternal youth to me. 

Alas ! hath earth no rest secure, 

No undisturbed hibernacle, 
No peace sincere, no vision pure, 

But curtains fall the sight to dull ? 

In all the year the hours are few 

When the aerial oceau clears, 
So telescopic eyes can view 

Deep in among celestial spheres. 

The hermit leaves a world so rude, 
The prophet treads the wilderness, 

The poet seeks in solitude 

Rare beauty all the world to bless. 

The nations rest — that they may fight ; 

The Churches rest — and seldom wake ; 
Even roses sleep their wintry night, 

And deacons dozy Sabbaths take. 

Trees, leaves, and owls, all sleep their sleeps, 
Before the storm the winds take breath, 

And down the line of battle creeps 
A stillness ere the work of death. 

The student — college is to him 

With training, rest, and power fraught ; 
But what are laws of Bode or Grimm, 

If delve he not, nor rise in thought? 

Let passion rest, close Cupid's eyes ; 

Of " extras " always count the cost ; 
Unrest may lead to realize 

In bitterness " love's labor lost." 



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Vacation days ! ambrosial sleep, 

When anxious toil's fierce fevers break. 

O rest of soul, sweet peace to keep, 
And God's eternal Sabbath take ! 

Sweet rest of faith before we wake, 

Beyond the world's inclosing bars — 
Welcome that sleep, before we make 
Our journey to the happy stars ! 

— Pilgrim. 
Edward Bettle : 

I have been much interested in all that has been said. It all 
tends to the same end. Its lesson to the students now here is to 
prize their opportunities and make the most of them. What a 
centre of wholesome and inspiring influences the Loganian 
Society has been ! How rich Haverford is in its past, in 
its present, and may it be in its future ! To aid its future 
growth, we are collecting subscriptions for a semi-centennial 
memorial fund. I have already obtained nineteen autographs, 
for none of which would I take less than a thousand dollars. 

Henry Bettle : 

I knew my time would come, but did not know when. I have 
no formal speecli. I think literary societies very important. In 
them the student proves whether what he has got in the class-room 
amounts to anything. It is there that he learns that self-posses- 
sion which is so important to him in the duties of life. He 
gains confidence in himself and learns to speak on his feet, and 
acquii'es some acquaintance with parliamentary law. While I 
am proud to stand here as a member of the Everett Society, and 
wish all success to the Athenseum, I am f)rouder to be a member 
of the oldest society in the College. 

Let the societies, then, go forward in their proper mission 
without envy, compreliending, as they do, much of the good 
work of Haverford. The prosperity of all of them will be of 
the greatest advantage to the College. 

Now a very modest and graceful writer* asks me to read this 
poem : 

* Dr. Henry ETartshorne. 

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' We have come, from the mart and the office, 

From factory, forum, and field. 
The graybeard, the athlete, and novice ; 

All, homage to yield 
To the memories ever upspringing 

Round the mother that nourished our souls, 
For the harvest each summer is bringing. 

While time o'er us rolls. 

Oh ! the dreams that we dreamed here were splendid ; 

No gifts had Aladdin like ours ; 
But the morn of those visions has ended ; 

Noon withers our flowers. 
Our day is oft wintry and clouded ; 

Amid turmoil and teai's we despond ; 
Yet the sun, though by earth's mist enshrouded, 

Shines ever beyond. 

Were those dream-hours the richest and brightest 

That Memory's dial has shown? 
When the heart-beat is freest and lightest. 

Is dearest bliss known ? 
Ah, no ! With torn feet on the mountain. 

We laugh to look down on the plain ; 
Soon cloyed with the plash of the fountain, 

The torrent is gain. 

In strength that through battle grows stronger, 

In patience that outwearies pain. 
In hope that burns brighter, the longer 

Griefs fall, thick as rain — 
As rock -lights, far over the ocean, 

Through darkest night cheerliest shine ; 
In the heart-glow of Christ-sent devotion. 

Is bliss most divine. 

Yet, the promise of dawn was its glory ; 

That prophecy we but misread. 
Though, with foreheads now furrowed and hoary. 

We mourn for our dead. 



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When we stand in the valley of vision 
No tears for lost youth will we shed ; 

Though faded the earth-dream elysian, 
We have heaven instead." 

Henry C. Brown: 

So many excellent things have been said, that I can add little 
of interest. I was much interested in the collection mentioned 
by Edward Bettle, and hope that he will complete it soon and 
that we shall be able to provide all desirable appliances and 
additions. 

Charles Egberts : 

After listening to the reminiscences of 1833-4, I am satisfied 
that I must have been here in the dark ages. It was in my time 
that the old arbor blew down, and no one had energy enough to 
put it up again. I joined both the Everett and Logauian Socie- 
ties. The discipline was worked for all it was worth. Charles 
Atherton was made Governor, under a Superintendent, and a 
Committee of Managers assisted. But finally Samuel J. Gum- 
mere came and managed the discipline without effort. Ours was 
the first class that spoke in this hall. 

John B. Garrett : 

I was also here in the dark ages, between the brilliant early 
lights and the present well-prepared Professors. It was a dark 
age, but somehow nature did her work, and Haverford produced 
such men of solid worth for the community as James Whitall, 
Dr. James Thomas, and Philip Garrett. 

Henry Cope: 

I am obliged to you for calling on me, tliough I have nothing 
especial to say. I am glad to know that tlie Loganian is pros- 
pering and that it has not been given up ; also that it is now 
connected with the private societies, so that they are, as it were, 
pillars to it, sending up their best members as representatives. 
I have heard from the present students some complaint that there 
is not time enough for two societies. I do not see how that can 
be ; in my day we found time enough to attend two each week. 



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I should be sorry to see any of tliem given up. Reduce the 
number of meetings, if you tiiink best, hut keep up the Societies. 
I hope that the interest in the Societies will not be sutt'cred to 
flao-; after what we have heard to-night, the students will 
doubtless l)e ashamed to give them up. 

(Some honorary members who had been expected to speak 
were here obliged to leave in order to catch a train for the city.) 

John Collins: 

Before we adjourn to 1934, I wish to present a proposition. 
We all honor the memory of Daniel B. Smith. It would be a 
great pleasure to me to perpetuate his memory by preparing a 
copy in oil of the photographic portrait of him which now hangs 
in Founders' Hall. 

Dr. Hartshorne moved that a committee of five be appointed 
to confer with John Collins with regard to the proposed portrait. 

The President appointed Dr. Hartshorne, Lloyd P. S.mith, 
and Dr. J. J. Levick, with power to add two others to their 
■number. 

Edward Settle, F. E. Paige, W. M. Coates, Henry C. Brown, 
■and Albin Garrett were appointed a committee to have charge of 
the semi-centennial number of the Collegian, and cause the essays 
;to be bound or printed, together with the proceedings of this 
meeting. 

Then adjourned until fifty years hence, First month 21st, 
1934. 

THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF HAYERFORD. 

By Thomas Kimber. 

In the official Acoount of Haverford College, published in 
1835, two years after its formal opening, we read : 

" During the week of the Yearly Meeting held in Philadel- 
phia, in the Fourth month, 1830, a number of Friends who had 
for a long time felt the disadvantages under which the youth of 
our Society labor in obtaining a liberal education met to de- 



Iiber;ite on the best means of removing them. It was then agreed 
to attempt the establishment of a school under the care and man- 
agement of Friends for instruction in the higlier branches of 
learning." 

Subsequent conferences held in New York and Piiiladelphia 
during the summer of that year resulted in a definite and ma- 
tured plan of operations, detailed in a circular signed by thirteen 
prominent members of New York and Philadelphia Yearly 
Meetings, under date of Tenth mouth, 1830, from which the 
following declaration of their object and purpose is taken : 

"They believe it to be of very great importance that the liter- 
ary instruction which shall fit our children for general usefulness 
in life should be combined with a religious care over their 
morals and manners ; and that they should be made acquainted 
with the great doctrines of the Christian religion and be brought 
up in the observance of the testimonies of our Religious Society. 

" Tliey therefore propose to establish an institution of this 
character, in which the children of Friends shall receive a liberal 
education under the care of competent instructors of our own So- 
ciety so far as practicable. 

" It is proposed that the full course of study in this institution 
shall occupy a period of not less than four years, and shall in- 
clude English literature, mathematics, natural history, natural, 
intellectual, and moral philosophy, the ancient languages, and 
ancient literature. Opportunities for instruction iu the principal 
modern languages are also to be afforded." 

Such was the foundation of Haverford. Its subsequent his- 
tory is well known to us all t how worthily its day has fulfilled 
the promise of its dawn, and how the noble aspirations and self- 
denying efforts of our fathers have already been rewarded in the 
blessings conferred upon their children and their children's chil- 
dren, as well as upon that branch of the Church of Christ to 
which they were so strongly and so tenderly attached. 

May we not confidently hope that a still brighter future is 
opening before it, which shall confirm and extend its usefulness 
in the past ; and that the comprehensive outline presented more 
than half a century ago by the founders of Haverford may be 
completed and extended, both in its varied curriculum and in its 



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ever-wideiiitig influence, through the exertions of its present able 
Management ? 

The admirable address, from the pen of Daniel B. Smith, 
adopted by the Board of Managers in 1832 is worthy of careful 
preservation and of wide circulation at the present day. The 
whole question of general as well as of special education is dis- 
cussed in that paper with a precision and ability that have rarely 
been equaled within so brief a compass; and it is a question 
which, however ancient, seems to be always new — since it pre- 
sents itself afresh for the consideration of each succeeding gen- 
eration. 

The limits of this review will only permit an earnest commen- 
dation of that address to the friends of Haverford, and of edu- 
cation generally throughout our Society, as a masterly analysis of 
the varied advantages of mathematical and natural science, as well 
as of the study of the ancient and modern languages, ancient and 
modern history, and natural, mental, and moral philosophy, in 
that thorough course of instruction which has for its object not 
only an aesthetic, intellectual culture, but the formation of practical 
character. 

When we remember that the fifty years which have passed 
since this liberal foundation was laid down have been crowded 
with a succession of the most important scientific discoveries, and 
have witnessed a marvelous development in the practical arts 
of life, we can better appreciate the wisdom and foresight of our 
fathers in thus anticipating and providing for the absolute re- 
quirements of the generation in which we live. 

The first Conference of the New York and Philadelphia Friends 
upon this subject was held, as has been stated, in the Fourth 
month of 1830. At that time the railway systems of America 
and of England were scarcely in their inception, the Liverpool 
and Manchester, the first passenger railroad, having been opened 
in December of that year. The Camden and Amboy Road was 
not in operation ; and the New York delegation that met in 
Philadelphia, instead of enjoying a rapid and easy transit of 
about two hours, traveled laboriously by stages for the greater 
part of two days, resting by the way at Trenton or Princeton, 
as was the custom at that time. 



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They could send no telegraphic notice of their coming. It 
was not till the year following (1831) that Michael Faraday 
began, at the Royal Institution in London, that brilliant series 
of patient experiments on electric currents in connection with a 
galvanic battery which led to the discovery of the electro-magnet, 
with all its marvelous results and its yet unknown possibilities 
and powers. 

Still two years later, in 1833, the year that Haverford opened, 
he read before the Royal Society his famous paper on the " Iden- 
tity of Electricities," which established an outline of the science 
of " magneto-electricity," to which mankind owes so much to-day 
for the rapid and almost startling progress of the past half century. 

At the time of that Conference, in 1830, the anthracite coal of 
Pennsylvania lay almost undisturbed in its dreamless slumber 
folding up in its vast involutions the long-buried sunlight and 
sunheat of ages ago which, though as yet scarcely known to 
man, the great Creator of the heavens and the earth had packed 
silently away for his use when other provisions for light and 
heat should begin to fail.* 

Side by side with the coal beds lay reposing vast seams of iron 

* The writer of this essay well remembers having been taken, when a child, 
to see one of the first locomotives leave the station at Ninth and Green Streets, 
Philadelphia; and that it was thonght most prudent for the party to view 
the novel spectacle from the second story balcony of the hotel opposite, for 
fear of a possible explosion of the boiler. 

He recalls, too, the pleasure with which his father, one of the founders of 
Haverford, would relate an incident of the recent introduction of anthracite 
coal to some gentlemen of this city by an enthusiastic pioneer in that trade — 
himself also a founder of Haverford — who forwarded to them some pon- 
derous specimens of the article, with the prediction that it would be the fuel 
of the future. 

One of his friends placed his adamantine block on the andirons in his 
chimney, and kindled around it a fire, first of shavings and afterward of 
hickory wood, in the vain hope of developing its latent calorific powers. 

Failing entirely, of course, he concluded that the substance was utterly 
incombustible, and wrote in acknowledgment of its receipt that in the event 
of a general conflagration of the world, he thought the safest place of refuge 
would be an anthracite coal mine. 

Yet the first fifty years of Haverford's existence have witnessed the ban- 
ishment of our once familiar andirons to the attic or the old curiosity shop, 
while the annual consumption of millions of tons of anthracite coal attests the 
truth of the prediction that it would become the "fuel of the future." 



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ore, awaiting a touch of the magic wand of practical science to 
spring into countless forms of usefulness and beauty — a treasure 
far more precious and more availing in the development of our 
national resources than mines of silver and gold, but at the time 
of the foundation of Haverford almost wholly untouched. 

Since that date, the number of States in our Union has nearly 
doubled; its population has more than quadrupled; while its 
sources of agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial wealth 
have multiplied beyond the power of verification by any reliable 
statistics within our reach. 

Glancing for a moment at its social and literary position and 
progress in the past half century, we rejoice that the accursed 
system of human slavery, which weighed upon the nation 
like a millstone, has been swept away as by a whirlwind. That 
grand declaration of universal freedom from the pen of William 
Lloyd Garrison, issued in 1835, found its answering echo and its 
ti'iumphant fulfillment in tlie immortal Proclamation of Pres- 
ident Lincoln more than a quarter of a century later. 

At the time of the Conference, in 1830, Whittier was a diffi- 
dent young man of twenty-three, publishing that year a Life of 
Brainard and Legends of New England, the latter of which 
furnished afterward the material for some of his most popular 
poems, then unwritten. 

Longfellow, who had returned from Europe the year before, 
was then Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin College, 
and five years afterward published his first volume, in 1835, 
about which time he accepted the Chair of Modern Languages 
and Literature at Harvard. 

Bryant was editor of the Evening Post, and two years later 
gathered together his fugitive poems, which first issued from the 
press in a collected f.)rm in 1832. 

Bancroft was even then an accomplished scholar, mostly 
occupied in visiting the universities and libraries of Europe, 
while gathering materials for his History of the United States, 
the first volume of which appeared in 1834. 

Henry Wheaton published his History of the Northmen in 
1831. George Ticknor was then Professor of the French and 
Spanish Languages at Harvard, a position which he resigned 



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five years later tliat he might reside abroad while preparing for 
his History of Spanish Literature, published long afterward. 

Motley was a boy of sixteen, of studious liabits and character, 
graduating afterward at Harvard, and then spending some years 
in tlie universities of Europe, but not publishing the works 
which have added such honor to his name until more than a 
quarter of a century later. 

It will be seen by this hurried and partial rfeum6 tliat the period 
which has elapsed since the foundation of Haverford largely covers 
tlie history of American literature, as well as of the development 
of the social and commercial position and progress of the nation. 

Turning now for a moment to England, we find tliat William 
Wilberforce passed away from earthly scenes in 1833 — the year 
that Haverford was opened — praising God with his dying 
breath that he had lived to hear of the assured safety of the 
Parliamentary Bill for the Abolition of Slavery in the British 
Dominions, although he was not permitted to witness its final 
and glorious accomplishment. 

At the time of the first Conference, in 1830, Dr. Arnold had 
already for two years entered on his arduous labors as Head 
Master of E-ugby School, which he governed so wisely on the 
principle which has since become proverbial : "It is not neces- 
sary that this should be a school of three hundred or one hun- 
dred or fifty boys, but it is necessary that it should be a school 
of Christian gentlemen." 

Fifteen years afterward. Hartley Coleridge wrote of him : 

"'Twas his to teacli, 
Day after day from pulpit and from desk, 
«***■** 

That for the bravest sin that e'er was praised, 
The King eternal wore the crown of tliorns. 
****** 

And every fault which he could not prevent, 
His heart bled for it, 
As it had been a foul sin of his own. 
****** 

And if, at last, he sank beneath the weight, 
There were not wanting souls whom he had taught 
The way to Paradise, tliat in white robes 
Thronged to the gate to hail their Shepherd home." 



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The Reform Bill, in 1830, liad not yet passed Parliament ; 
the Anti-Corn Law League was not formed till nine years after- 
ward. Richard Cobden was a partner in a large calico-printing 
establishment at Manchester ; John Bright, a young man under 
age, was in his father's cotton factory at Rochdale. The great 
life-work of each of these eminent statesmen lay yet before 
them. Robert Southey was then Poet Laureate of England and 
at the height of his literary fame. His daughter records that in 
1831 the Princess Victoria, a young girl of eleven years, called 
with her mother to thank him for the pleasure his Life of Nelson 
had given her. 

Wordsworth, in 1831, revisited the " Banks of the Yarrow" 
with Sir Walter Scott, just previously to the departure of the 
latter for his last sad visit to Italy, and has left us both in prose 
and inverse a touching account of their parting interview. 

Coleridge, the elder, was not far from the close of his brilliant 
but erratic career. Four years afterward these lines, from his 
own pen, formed a part of his epitaph (1834) : 

" That he who many a year, with toil of breatli, 
Found death in life, may here find life in death- 
Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame — 
He asked, and hoped, through Christ." 

It is impossible within reasonable limits to follow the subject 
much farther. 

Nearly fifty years ago one of England's young poets, now 
wearing her Laureate crown, and very recently the recipient of 
other more doubtful honors, thus weighed the comparative 
importance of the epochs of history in connection with the arts 
of civilized life : 

" Better fifty years of Europe, 
Than a cycle of Cathay." 

With equal truth may we regard the history of England and of 
Europe during the last half century as far more interesting and 
important than a record of the same period during any previous 
stage of their existence. 

The great men who have lived and died within that time, the 



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wonderful improvements in the printing press and in the daily 
newspapers, the vast progress in every department of practical 
science, the extent and the results of steam navigation over the 
globe, the marvelous diffusion of the Holy Scriptures, in more 
thau two hundred languages, throughout the habitable earth, 
carrying with them the light of the Gospel to its darkest places 
— all these have left their impress upon the age in which we live, 
that has given it a character and an importance far beyond the 
ages of the past. 

Not only so, but they hold out a promise of even greater 
things for the future, which again will involve greater responsi- 
bilities and the need of a more thorough preparation to meet 
them, in the half century upon which we have just entered, than 
were presented to those of us who may be said to represent that 
which has just closed. 

In this preparation and in these responsibilities the Manage- 
ment of Haverford will have its appropriate share ; and the 
voices of the past may well cheer the workers of the future by 
a simple story of the successful accomplishment of many of the 
hopes and the efforts of its founders more than fifty years ago. 



HAVEEFORD. 

A Yacation Visit. 



The changes wrought by Father Time 
In small affairs and things sublime, 

With ever-busy fingers, 
Have now become so trite a tale 
We know it all, the plot is stale. 

But still our wonder lingers. 

My ancient chum, a little chap, 
Who wore a jacket and a cap. 

And talked in piping treble, 
Who found in mischief such delight, 
And proved to discipline a quite 

Unreconstructed rebel — 



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Lost for a time among the crowd, 

When next from mankind's nimbus cloud 

My little friend emerges, 
He towers before my wondering eye 
A bearded giant, six feet high, 

In voice, a Boanerges. 

I look to see his grins and winks, 
Expressive of the iiighest jinks, 

But get a stately greeting ; 
For Dick is now a father staid, 
And has, I hear, been lately made 

Clerk of his Yearly Meeting. 

" Friend of my youth! what, know'st me not? 
Are classmates, chums, so soon forgot ? 

Can Time so strangely alter ?" 
He starts with an astonished stare. 
Gasps,, laughs, and cries out, " I declare, 

I do believe it's Walter !" 

Both pilgrims to this sacred fane. 
We meet, who scarce had hoped again 

To tread these paths together. 
Our lives have borne us far apart. 
But ancient friendship binds the heart 

With more than Gordian tether. 

The years, the decades, melt away 

As boyhood's sunbeams 'round us play, 

And slumbering; memories waken : 
Question on question crowds apace — 
The boy comes back in each man's face. 

And sides with mirth are shaken. 

Through the Gymnasium first we stray, 
Wherein, it seems but yesterday. 

We leaped as light as Remus ; 
Then, passing through the utmost door, 
Again we merrily explore 

The Grove of Academus. 



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Not happier roams the spotted fawn 
Than we, as round about the Lawn 

We chase the moments fleeting ; 
And, as we pass their ranks between, 
The shrubs along the Serpentine 

Nod us a friendly greeting. 

Now, arm-in-arm, aglow with talk, 
We stroll along the Sharon Walk, 

Seeking the Tree of Knowledge ; 
'Then, under the Timothean Arch 
We pass, as in triumphal march. 

Toward the dear old College. 

Not to the schloss, with towers tall. 
Built since our day, called Barclay Hall, 

But to the temple yellow. 
Against whose wall the ivy clings, 
And o'er whose front the linden flings 

A shade subdued and mellow. 

Within these walls, old boy, we spent 
The years that gave our lives their bent, 
Where, light as was our laughter, 
" The grain that ripens into man " 
Its unregarded growth began, 
Preparing our hereafter. 

Pallas Athene here revealed, 

As now, a blackboard for a shield, 

No Gorgon's head upon it ; 
She bore a pointer for a spear, 
And hel meted her locks severe 

Within a Quaker bonnet. 

Indeed, sucli helmet well became 
.Tlie features of the classic dame ; 

For, in its meaning normal, 
'Twas no monastic badge uncouth. 
But spoke devotion to God's truth 

Against the false and formal. 



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Methinks I see, in fancy's cloud, 
Harlan, calm-eyed and marble-brow'd. 

Noble in thought and feature ; 
And Doctor Swift — majestic form ! 
A philanthropic thunder-storm — 

Stern judge, but genial teacher. 

I love him, though he called me once 
A name that signifieth " dunce," 

And, ere the lecture ended, 
Bade me to note that o'er my head 
Was hanging by a single thread 

Damocles' sword suspended. 

The cook had given me two pies. 
For I found favor in her eyes. 

I'm sure it must have shock'd her 
To learn that in my rooraward course 
I'd rush'd, like a stampeded horse. 

Against the awful Doctor. 

I gained my room, I closed the door, 
My booty quick I covered o'er. 

And in my wardiobe threw it. 
"All's well," thought I— but, ah ! the shock 
I felt to hear a solemn knock ; 

'Twas Nemesis —I knew it. 

" What had the boy beneath his coat ?" 
The answer quavered in my throat — 
" A pie — from — oif the dresser." 
" Return it — and return again !" 
I think I've mentioned there were twain ; 
I took back one — the lesser. 

Sternly he lectured me, and long : 
" Ponder these words from Virgil's song," 

Such was his peroration ; 
" Their meaning if thee fails to trace. 
Go to Professor Thomas Chase 
And ask for the translation. 



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" ' Facilis descensus Aveeno, 
Sed KEVOCAEE GRADUM, superasque evadere ad auras, 

Hoc OPUS, HIC LABOR EST.' " 

But while we tell our ancient tales, 
The sunset into twilight pales. 

The clocks are striking seven ; 
The grassy lawn is wet with dew, 
And from the tranquil deeps of blue 

Look down the stars of heaven. 

So, now, farewell — I find my song 
Has grown ridiculously long, 

Like some Mongolian story. 
Long flourish Haverford, say we ; 
jMay noble lives for ages be 

The anthem of her glory ! 

— James "VV. Cromwell. 



SCHOLARSHIP AND POLITICS. 
By Philip C. Garrett. 

I cannot find it in my heart to treat scholarship in its relation 
to politics any otherwise than as it has great value in every field 
of action ; nor as having any value more than blind and con- 
fiding ignorance, except in so far as the object of its aspirations 
is worthy, even as the object of adoration by ignorant faith may 
be also. 

Arnold has narrowed down the meaning of culture into "get- 
ting the power, tlirougl) reading, to estimate the proportion and 
relation in what we read." However, reading is only valuable 
as a means ; and scholarship and culture lie on the same road, 
only scholarship is farther on than culture. What I have to 
say, then, with regard to culture and scholarship has no refer- 
ence to any limited or special meaning of those terms which 
may have grown into fashion out of the narrowing tendency of 
man's contracted powers. They are used in these remarks in 



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their broadest, simplest, and most visible sense — culture as the 
tillage of arable brains, scholarsliip as the improved result of 
that culture — two stages in the process of fertilizing the mind. 
Anything, therefore, which may be alleged of culture a.id schol- 
arship in any particular field of human activities is simply so 
much said (1) of the possibility of improving intellectual pow- 
ers by cultivation, as one can increase the fertility of a meadow, 
and (2) of the value of larger powers in a given field. Of 
politics, again, let us not speak as the science of trickery, chi- 
canery, selfish ambition, and public robbery to which that much- 
abused term is too often applied, but as the science, at once lofty 
and profound, of governing not only honestly and well, but in 
the way both purest and best for the aggregate number governed. 
Reduced thus to simple formula, it is not very spicy to say cul- 
ture is good in politics. It becomes an axiom. And so it is 
with very many of the problems which vex mankind ; simplify 
the terminology with which we mystify discussion and boil 
down the nebulous phrases, and logic is nice and easy work ; 
you stumble sometimes on the value of x, and find your problem 
solved before you know it. And the real, substantial value of 
scholarship simply arises from the grasp of mind it gives, the 
ability to grapple with any subject — to dive into the depths of 
knowledge and lay deep foundations, to build up into the airy 
heights the indestructible fabric of a pure, lofty, and heavenly 
logic. 

Let us, then, regarding politics not as a selfish and earthy 
field, but as an elevated arena, look for tiie most ennobling 
motives for engaging in it, followir)g man's destinies among the 
stars, where the accents of " Duty, stern daughter of the voice 
of God," are heard. Far other motives govern men often, to 
be sure; far other, even generally; so far, that in this Demos- 
governed land leaders have quite forgotten science and polity in 
their mad pursuit after ill-golten gold and glory. The silly 
people, meanwhile, drowse on to destruction, and, like Samson in 
Delilah's hands, are shorn at once of their golden locks and their 
power. And not Demos, nor even Aristoi, but Ploutos or Oligoi 
rule over the "temple of the living God," and the voice from 
the foi-um is no longer God's voice. It should be otherwise, for 



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political supremacy belongs with the people, who are, or should 
be, in the likeness of the Everlasting, and whose voice is, or 
should be. His voice. No groveling or sordid personality, no 
" vaulting ambition which o'erleaps its goal," should have 
place there. The noblest Roman virtues, gilded and glorified by 
the blessed light of Christianity, the virtues of patriotism, of 
charity, of generosity, of brotherhood, are those which should 
be most familiar to the politician in the highest sense. 

The beneficent effects of culture in scholarship are felt, how- 
ever, long before you reach so near heaven, for she is graced with 
humility and " stoops to conquer," as the handmaid of utility. 
What knowledge of other lands and of his own, of the history 
of civilization, of religion, of science, of art, and letters, does 
not the politician need for his rightly governing? for the politi- 
cian is, or should be, the statesman. 

What perfect knowledge, to saturation, does he not need of 
Greek and Roman law, and who knows but of Hebrew and 
Sanscrit, of Brahmin and Chinese, if truth were told ? What 
sense should he possess of the growth of tliought in the various 
philosophies, either exploded, leaving a little residuum, or sur- 
viving, perhaps, to be exploded yet. 

And alas ! let scholarship bring her best stores to his treasure- 
house, and what does he know, after all, for certain ? and what is 
he that the Omniscient is mindful of him? For " in Him are 
all things," and it is in our relations to Him and in the promo- 
tion of His purposes that the maximum bonum consists. 

All knowledge, all wisdom, all certain conclusion, all right ac- 
tion, are bound together by ties of rel-.itionship to one Almighty 
Power — it matters not whether in religion, in art, in science, in 
finance, or in politics. 

He reigns supreme in all things, and the basal stones of the 
structure of all thought are the foundamental truths of our ex- 
istence, and our relations to God, to the past, to futurity, to the 
universe around us. As to these relations, scholarship helps us 
willingly ; not merely reading the thoughts of others, but form- 
ing one's own. No man can be sure of his intellectual inferences 
whose beliefs rest entirely on another man's foundation. Mere 
tradition is spurious coin. Free inquiry, in a spirit of deep sin- 
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eerity, winging her way with her sister angel of humility into 
tlie profoundest depths and distances of space and time, may, by 
God's grace and blessing, reveal much of infinite and everlasting 
truth to us. 

Tlie Jiuman heart craves and yearns, with longing inexpressible, 
for knowledge seemingly denied to our blind and groping vision. 
We go forth at night amid the worlds, when our dazzling foun- 
tain of light is withdrawn to the antipodes. The wonderful 
gift is given us of looking with these eyes upon orbs removed 
from us by spaces only crossed by light in thousands of years. 
We are dumb in the presence of infinity, for we know not how 
far beyond worlds yet revolve in the eternal vista, and we believe 
that it is limitless. We wander around our planet and see the 
ortis on every side, and realize that we are hanging in the centre 
of endless space. We marvel. Where is heaven ? The glories 
of cloud and sunset are unrivaled and inconceivable, and we lift 
our bewildered eyes to the sky's infinite depths of tenderness and 
say. Surely there. Yet where in that boundless area ? And 
where is hell ? Can the abode of never-ending woe be among 
tliese crystal spheres ? Or can it be below the crust of this our 
earth, cooling, drying, and ultimately changing into adamant? 
We reverently wonder, what is God ? and tremble as we ask 
ourselves. A Spirit, a Force, a Power, Omnipresent, pervading 
everywhere ; Omnipotent, creating and preserving all things ; 
Omniscient, knowing all ; Inconceivable. How can He be like 
ourselves ? how can we, diminutive, feeble, ignorant mites on 
the surface of one of His smaller globes, be made in that 
image ? What is the object of our insignificant being here ? 
When this corruptible body yields up this marvelous life, this 
soul, this spiritual body, this sentient being, where will it go ? 
Who will guide it thither ? By what power can it propel itself 
to its destination ? What is time? What is space? Have they 
limits f 

These are questions that have been asked for ages, and having 
remained unanswered, the human mind, which craves an anchor- 
age, has, for the most part, in that small percentage of mankind 
wliere Christianity prevails, at least, accepted an uninquisitive be- 
lief in certain writings which bear the impress of Divinity, as the 



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immovable rock upon which to build religious thought. I be- 
lieve this is possible and safe ; and it may be best for mankind 
to rest content with a pastoral state of mind. But if there is to 
be free inquiry, if untrammeled thought is right, if civilization 
is desirable or cultui'e obligatory, if higher education is not to 
be denounced as a snare of the tempter, then I do not believe 
the Pegasus of thought can be tamed to go in harness. We will 
wander into space and time in genuine quest of truth — not 
proudly, not iconoclastically nor recklessly, but humbly, rever- 
ently, and eagerly, desiring to know very fact. 

If God had vouchsafed to us perfect and entire knowledge of 
all things, all premises being incontestable, logic would be simple 
and conclusions sure. And the nearer we come to a true knowl- 
edge intellectually of Him and of His truth as to all things in 
His creation, the clearer will be our intuitions, the more certain 
our inferences on all subjects wliich come under our cognizance. 
Now we err because " we see in part ;" " but when that which is 
perfect is come, then shall we see, even as also we are seen " by 
the Omniscient eye. 

It is true, Job queried vvhether man, by searching, could " find 
out God," and King David averred that such knowledge was 
too wonderful for him; it was iiigh, he could not attain unto it ; 
and assuredly none of us can, beyond what He wills who has 
created us. Moreover, there are dangers as well as impossibilities 
in the path of the searcher after truth. There is danger of ar- 
rogance and of insincerity. Still, is it not possible and well, in 
humble submission to the limitations of the Great Spirit, to 
search with such earnestness as He may give each of us into 
the profoundest arcana in the abysses of His universe? 

I would apply, then, no other measure to the value of scholar- 
ship and culture in the field of politics than I would in any other 
field of thought or activity. They are all parts of the solemn 
and infinite reality of all things, linked together by the irre- 
fragable chain of a common creation and cohesion. 

There is, perhaps, a nearer approach to the Divine in politics, 
properly construed, than any other arena of thought ; so near that 
the voice of the people has been said, without intention of irrever- 
ence, to be the voice of God. I take it as uncontroverted bv the 



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human race, at least, that man is nearer to the Divine than any 
other of His creatures. Shakespeare was credited with great 
knnwh^lge of our liuman nature, and thus describes man : " How 
infinite in iaculties ; in form and moving, how express and ad- 
niiral>le ! In action, how like an angel ; in apprehension, iiow 
like a god ; the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!" 
Young calls him "a worm, a god," and " Midway from nothing 
to the Deity!" and Thomas Carlyle says, " We are the miracle of 
miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God." Man is mani- 
festly tlie top of creation in complexity of physical organism, in 
power of reasoning, in versatility of resources, in mastery over 
the rest of creation. Infinitely below the eternal source of his 
being, therefore, as he is, he is yet as immeasurably beyond the 
nearest approach to him in the creation, as the nearest fixed star 
is beyond tiie outermost planet of our system. 

Of how great importance, then, is the science of his proper 
government, systematizing his capacities, and bringing them into 
the most effective subjection to the ultimate objects of his exist- 
ence in the Divine mind ! To a proper conception of wl)at 
this system of government should be, a just conception of these 
ultimate objects is of the last importance. What is man? Wliat 
was his origin? What future development is in store for him? 
What will be the final destination of the race ? What are man's 
relations to the eternal Author of his being, whom we are told 
-he resembles ? 

Dogma is abundant on some of these points. Traditions are 
not wanting. Imagination has been busy about them. The 
writings of holy men who spake as they were moved by the 
Almighty Spirit partially lift the veil. Analogy aids us in 
realizing facts hard to accept unseen. Yet how few reflect on 
these things, or base theories of government on theories of 
soul. 

On this great subject of how communities of men should be 
governed, what constitutes the best system and the wisest modes 
of using it, what should be the relations of different communi- 
ties, one to another, there is a diversity of views as varied as 
the prismatic shades. Secularly the Russian view and that of 
the King of Dahomey, and spiritually the Roman view, ignore 



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the equal relation of all men to their Maker ; they recognize 
some mysterious, we may as well at once say false, preference 
Divinely given to certain individuals over their fellows, by 
which the former are held warranted in directing, instructing, 
and controlliiiy; tlie remaiuder. lu the Maze of modern scliolar- 
ship this unreal dogma is fast melting away. For what is the 
pearl of great price which scholarship is seeking, and with the 
value of which she condescends to aid the politician, but truth 
itself — the truth as to all things, the very truth, the fact, that 
which the Divine mind knows, and the mind of man gropes 
after and knows in part? For, after all, and with all these 
boasted faculties, how can we, microscopic parasites on this little 
ball of earth, with eyes turned toward its surface, how can we 
know much ? From our earthward aspect we look great indeed ; 
and, like the world, we hang in space, with the microscope below 
us and the telescope above ; but seen from above, how infinitely 
small ! Our proportions to the amazing, bewildering universe 
we audaciously strive to penetrate are infinitesimal. But the 
truth exists, eternal, immutable, invincible, yet attainable, 
through the gift of Him who created us, far beyond anything 
we could ask or think. 

And it is this abstract truth, so bound together in Him 
who comprehends it all, wiiich scholarship, according to the 
measure of her own attainment, ministers fitly to all who seek 
her aid. 

Let the politician not despise it. " Take fast hold of instruc- 
tion ; let her not go; keep her; for she is thy life" 

True culture has no other aim and no other value than this, 
that it increases the certainty'' of the premises upon which all 
conclusions are based. 

Man is the highest of created beings. His proper govern- 
ment, therefore, is one of the loftiest themes for thought and 
reasoning : 

Politics is the science of human govei-nment: 

It follows, that in polities true culture has a most important 
part to play; and that while Statesmanship should seek the help 
of Culture, Culture should on her part set herself sedulously to 
the perfecting of Statesmanship. 



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A GREETING. 

By Edward E. Wood. 

Hail to you, comrades ! Through half a century 
Of struggle, success, and eke misadventure. 
We meet to renew the steps of our progress. 
Loganians ! hail ! In the times that are past 
We have kept to the front, and, nailed to the mast, 
We floated our colors. Them now we address. 

Century halved with what great deeds of men ! 
Greatly the world has moved. Fitly we then 
Here for a moment pause to consider : 
What millions freed from slavery's chains ! 
What millions more from their lusts, and again, 
Clean-handed, facing God, the Provider ! 

Not for itself alone did the great German 

Fatherland clang together in arms, nor ran 

Italy's swift spirit, welding with fire 

Her classic hills for Italy's self alone; 

But that, with men regenerate, Thought, new sown, 

Might into Life grow better and higher. 

Africa now to the world awakes again. 

Out from the darkness gazing ; bearing the pain, 

With shrinking eyes, of such new human light, 

Bringing to all the world, out of the sea 

Of the past, powers that have freshened while she 

Slept with the Pharaohs through seons of night. 

But not in the storm of war does man attain 

His fullest power or mark his greatest gain. 

Unlimited now by time or by space, 

Man speaks to his fellows, shredding the lightning, 

Yoking the cosmic powers, and tightening 

His grasp on nature, the nurse of his race. 



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Hid are the confines o'er which thought-forces surge- 
Long is the strife from which Trutli may emerge 
Freshly to light, from the sharp contest's rage. 
To us who inherit the labors of Penn, 
The culture of Logan, to us among men, 
Such contests are fitting. Thei-e let us engage. 

Friends ! Pardon, if I with too serious lay. 
All unseemly disturb the joy of the day. 
Whatever the future, veiled goddess, may bring. 
Of this we are sure, of this I may sing, — 
The memories old renewed in the grasp 
Of hands that for years we have waited to clasp ! 

Of love that has grown with each lengthening day. 
Of thoughts backward flown, from each step of the way, 
(As we through our share of the century have moved. 
Not less than as now, when we meet our beloved,) 
To the old yellow walls, where the ivy doth cling, 
Loganian comrades! and to you do I sing. 



A MODERN HINDU EEFORMEE. 
By Chakles Wood. 

" Ten years ago the most influential religious teacher in 
India was Keshub Chunder Sen," said an officer in the English 
civil service to me, as we were crossing the Indian Ocean and 
were waiting for our first glimpse of Bombay. 

Religious influence in India means as much as in Scotland. 
From the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, religion of some sort 
holds undisputed sway. The power of England is not compara- 
ble to it. It was the mere suspicion, so it is generally believed, 
that their faith was about to be tampered with that aroused both 
Hindu and Mohammedan into such a frenzy of hate against 
the English that the mutiny of 1857 failed only through lack 
of leadership from becoming a successful revolution. 



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The people of India are naturally religious. They have 
always been ready either to fight or to die for their faith. 

The Ganges has been reddened as often as the Hiiine witli 
blood shed in religious wars. On the great plains of India, 
battles as cruel as Germany saw in her Thirty Years' War have 
been repeatedly fought. To-day, if there were no strong-handed 
government to hold them apart, Hindu and Mohammedan would 
rush upon each other in the madness of religious hate, or, bury- 
ing their animosities for a moment in an intenser hatred, they 
would combine against their common enemy, the Christian. 

For a teacher of religion un<ler thirty-five to attain in such a 
country to a position of such marked prominence is a phenome- 
non. It is still more remarkable that this position was reached, 
not by a leader of any of the old powerful religious parties, 
wiiether Hindu, Mohammedan, or Christian, but by the founder, 
or at least the acknowledged interpreter, of a new religion in op- 
position, more or less marked, to each of these three parties. 

Keshub Chunder Sen is a disciple neither of Moses nor Buddha, 
nor Zoroaster nor Mohammed nor Christ. He calls himself 
by none of these names ; he is an apostle of the new dispensa- 
tion ; he is the bringer in — so he believes — of a new epoch to 
India and humanity. 

Why may it not be ? All the ancient religions were once new. 
They were all born in the Orient. India herself was the first to 
hear tlie infant cries of Sakyamuni, the first to heed his teaching, 
and the first, too, to forget it. Why may she not, even in the 
last half of the nineteenth century, have given birth to another as 
great as the great Buddha himself? The hour is ripe. The old 
is passing away. Buddha is dead. Brahma and Mohammed 
are not reverenced as they once were. The Hindu laughs hear- 
tily with you over the hideous puerility of the idol worship 
from which he has just come, and to which he will probably to- 
morrow return. India has need of a new dispensation, and some 
fifty years ago a few of her leading spirits began to organize a 
reform which has resulted at least in the establishment of a new 
Church — the Brahmo Somaj. 

"At first," says Chunder Sen, " this Brahmo Somaj to which 
I belong was simply a Church for the worship of the one true 



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God according to the doctrines and ritual inculcated in the 
earliest Hindu Soriplures." For the time the members of this 
Church held to the infallibility of the Vedas ; " but," continues 
Sen, " tlie Brahmo Somaj, because it was the work of God, 
could not but break with the Vedas as soon as they were found 
to contain errors." The Brahmo Somaj, released from the 
nature worship and absurdities of the Vedas, became a pure 
theistic Ciiurcli, " tiie centre," says Sen, "of amoral, social, and 
religious reformation. 

"In the Brahmo Somaj," he adds, "we see concentrated all 
those great, urgent, and pressing reforms which India needs at 
the present moment. Is it the amelioration of the condition of 
women that India wants? Look at the Brahmo Somaj, and you 
see already are gathered in some of its chapels ladies who have 
discarded idolatry, superstition, and caste altogether ; who have 
learned to pray in their own houses unto the one true God, and 
have set their faces boldly against every form of polytheism 
and idol worship, and some of whom have published most 
beautiful theistic verses and hymns. 

" Is it the distinctions of caste that are to be leveled ? You see 
among the Brahmos a good number of valiant and brave men 
who not only dine with men of all classes, irrespective of the 
distinctions of color, caste, and creed, but who have promoted 
intermarriages between members of different castes. The high- 
caste Brahman has accepted as his wife a low-caste Sudra, and 
vice versa." 

This monotheism is certainly immensely superior to the idola- 
trous worship which one may still see everywhere in the Hindu 
temples of India. 

These women of the Brahmo Somaj, praying to the one true 
God and singing the theistic hymns which they themselves have 
composed, have indubitably a vastly superior type of religion to 
that of their sisters of Benares and of Calcutta as well, who, 
with their little copper vessels filled with water, go from temple 
to temple, pouring out libations not only to hideous idols, but 
also to obscene symbols. 

These " valiant and brave men," dining with all colors, 
castes, and creeds, are incomparably nobler specimens of human- 



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ity than their brethren who would not touch a Sudra with the 
tip of one of their fingers to save his life or his soul, and who 
would consider themselves, the poorest, wretchedest, and dirtiest 
of them, disgraced forever if they should eat with the Viceroy, 
or even with the Empress of India, Her Majesty, Queen 
Victoria. 

Any Church that can show such fruits has no need to bring 
forward other raisons d'Stre. 

That Keshub Chunder Sen should have found his way into a 
Church of this sort is the most natural thing in the world. How 
it came about was explained by Lord Laurence, once Viceroy of 
India, at a great meeting of welcome given to Chunder Sen on 
his arrival in England in the spring of 1870. " Our guest," 
said Lord Laurence, " is a Hindu gentleman of respectable and 
well-known lineage. His grandfather was the associate and co- 
adjutor of one of the most profound Sanskrit scholars in this 
country. Left an orphan in his youth, he was placed by his 
uncle in an Englisli school, and afterward was graduated in the 
college at Calcutta, where he gained a thorough knowledge of 
English language, literature, and history. 

" It was impossible that, with this knowledge, he could remain 
an idolater. Early in his career he learned to despise the wor- 
ship of idols, and by degrees,' by thought, by reflection, and 
prayer, he learned to believe in one God. He then joined a 
party known in Lower Bengal as the Brahmo Somaj, who wor- 
ship Brahma, the creator. After a short time he became the 
head of a reforming party among those reformers, so that in 
Keshub Chunder Sen they saw the representative of the most 
advanced section of the great reforming party which was rising in 
Bengal. 

"That such a man, so eager for light, should not have 
become a Christian, may at first glance seem very strange ; but 
the Hindu has always looked upon Christianity as the religion 
of his conquerors ; it is almost inseparably associated in his 
mind with English cannon and English soldiers. It has come 
to him as something foreign and Occidental. The Christian 
convert suffers more, socially, than the Brahminist or Moham- 
medan or the member of the Brahmo Somaj. These are reasons 



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sufficient, if there were no others, why Chunder Sen sliould have 
cast in his lot with the theistic rather than the Christian Church. 

" For the last ten years he has been the leading spirit — it 
would not be an exaggeration to say the Pope — of the Brahmo 
Somaj. The form of its development is due to him rather than 
to any other member, or perhaps, to all the other members com- 
bined. He is the pastor of the church in Calcutta and the edi- 
tor of the weekly newspaper published by the Society." 

It is next to impossible to determine accurately the creed of 
an organization that has no written confession of faith, no in- 
fallible books, no authoritative articles. But as Keshub Chun- 
der Sen always speaks ex cathedra, we might form some idea of 
what the theistic Church is from his own utterances were it not 
that he always speaks, so he himself tells us, as an Oriental, in 
tropes and figures. 

He can cry, in an address to the Brahmo Soma], in the Town 
Hall of Calcutta, on its fifty-first anniversary, " Blessed Jesus, I 
am Thine. I give myself, body and soul, to Thee. If India 
will revile and persecute me, and take my life-blood out of me, 
drop by drop, still, Jesus, Thou shalt continue to have my 
honjage. Son of God, I love Thee truly !" 

But he can say also in the address : " Christ's dispensation is 
said to be divine. I say that this dispensation — the Brahmo 
Somaj — is equally divine." 

With his missionaries he can go on pilgrimages, as he calls 
them, in the " worship-room " of his own house or in his study, 
" where, surrounded by book-shelves loaded with the wisdom of 
ages, and in the midst of literary associations, they communed 
with Socrates." The following saints were visited on the dates 
specified against their names : 

Moses, 22d February; Socrates, 7th March; Sakya, 14th 
March ; The Rishis, 21st March; Christ, 8th August; Moham- 
med, 19th September; Chaitauya, 26th September; Scientific 
men, 3d October. 

" Before the flag of the new dispensation," cries this broadest 
of Broad Churchmen, " bow, ye nations, and proclaim the father- 
hood of God, the brotherhood of man. In blessed Eucharist 
let us eat and assimilate all the saints and prophets of the world. 



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" Thus shall we put ou the new man and say : The Lord Jesus 
is my will, Socrates ray head, Chaitauya my heart, the Hindu 
Rishi my soul, and the piiilaiithropic Howard my right hand." 

The doors of this modern Pantheon stand always wide open. 
There is room enough within for all heroes and prophets, if not 
for all gods. The Brahmo Somaj is an attempt to render equal 
service to many masters. 

I went, one hot afternoon last May, to call upon Keshub 
Chuuder Sen at his home in Calcutta. I had heard that he was 
in " retirement " — such was the term used — and might refuse to 
see any one, and, mistaking at first the house where he once 
lived for his present residence, a tall, stout, Indian Baboo, of 
whom I made inquiries as he was about stepping into his palan- 
quin, turned upon me rather sharply and said, " May I ask why 
you wish to see Chunder Sen ?" To which question, considering 
my nationality, there could be but one appropriate reply, " May 
I inquire why you ask?" " Oh!" answered the Baboo, " I am 
a relative, and I doubt if he Avill see you ; but I will with 
pleasure direct you to his house." 

A comfortable European house it was, somewhat better even 
than most American societies provide for their missionaries, 
though they are nearly always of good size and appearance, as 
they should be. I took it for granted, though foreign mission- 
aries do not live ordinarily in native houses, that an Indian 
reformer would have a purely Indian home, but this reformer 
has been to Europe, has associated more or less all his life with 
Europeans, and has gradually and almost necessarily substituted 
Occidental comfort for Oriental simplicity. 

I was shown into just such a drawing-room as one might find 
in almost any of the smaller London houses, with the one ex- 
ception of a large tiger-skin stretched upon the floor, which did 
service as a rug. Almost immediately, Keshub Chunder Sen en- 
tered ; he was a tall, well-formed man, with a tendency to over- 
stoutness ; coifee-colored skin, eyes of tlie deepest black, and 
flashing with fire ; a handsome face of the Eastern sort, full of 
animal life and passion, yet the face of a possible mystic ; long, 
delicately-formed hands, such as men of the West rarely, if ever, 
possess. A good type of the Oriental, dressed, too, as a native 



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gentleman — a long, loose, toga-like garment, lighter than any 
fabrics used by us, supplied the place of the much more numer- 
ous and much less comfortable and graceful articles which make 
up the ordinary costume in every country of Europe. 

His welcome was very cordial. He said nothing about his 
" retirement," but began at once to ask the usual questions which 
are put to all travelers in English as pure and grammatical as 
one would hear in Oxford or Cambridge, though without that 
certain accent or inflexion of tlie voice which one rarely finds 
except among native-born Englishmen. He spoke with perfect 
freedom and witii that openness of manner which invited 
questioning. 

When I asked if a member of the Brahmo Somaj would ever 
speak of himself as a Christian, he said, witii a smile, "Oh ! no ; 
that is a term of narrowness ; the Christian must hate " (I won- 
dered from what sources he iiad formed this idea) "the Hindu 
and the Mohammedan, but we honor all. Christ is to us tlie 
greatest, His life is the purest, but He is only primus inter -pares." 
Remembering what I had heard about his retirement, I inquired 
if asceticism found any place in their system. " Not with the 
meaning which is ordinarily given to that word," was his rejjly. 
" We believe in and advocate the greatest simplicity of life, we 
live on alms, we eat no meat, and there are times when Ave go 
into the wilderness to be alone for days." 

Then he showed me a picture of himself and his wife seated 
on the tiger-skiu which was under our feet, spread apparently 
on some hill-top of sand in a barren Indian desert. He held 
in his hand (so the picture represented him) the ektara, an in- 
strument of a single string, the only one, I believe, ever used by 
the Brahmo Somaj. " We sometimes spend hours in that posi- 
tion," he said, " communing with the Infinite." 

" Do you believe," I asked, " in modern revelations ?" It 
was somewhat generally thought in Calcutta, I had found, that 
whenever Keshub Chunder Sen's authority was questioned by 
the Brahmo Somaj, he had the habit of falling back upon a 
revelation just received as the motive and authority of his action. 
" Certainly," he said ; " God has not become dumb ; He speaks 
now as of old." " You have missionaries ?" I said. " Oh ! yes ; 



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we are sending them into nearly every part of India, and they 
are meeting everywliere with good success." " But," I asked, 
" what if one of these men should say, I have had a revelation 
to go to Allahabad when the Church wishes him to work in 
Triehiuopoly V 

" He would be forced to yield," was the reply, " We should 
not believe in a revelation of that sort, in opposition to the 
opinion of the whole Church." 

"Tiiis might lead," I suggested, "to schisms. Have you 
ever had any divisions into parties in the Soma) ?" " Yes," he 
answered ; " within a very short time there has been one of a some- 
what serious nature. It resulted in part from the marriage of 
my daughter, of which you may have heard something." 

One can scarcely mention Keshub Chunder Sen or the Brahmo 
Somaj anywhere in India without being told the story of this 
marriage, and in a more or less incorrect form, so that I was very 
glad to have him speak of it of his own accord and to hear from 
his own" lips the truth of the matter. 

It was a rather romantic story, and one that could not fail to 
excite sympathy as well as interest. The marriage of children 
has long been general in India. I was present one evening at a 
wedding, when a boy of six was married to a girl of four. 

The boy must become a man before he takes his wife to his 
home, but if he should die in the meantime, the child whom he 
ceremonially married must always remain a widow. 

Latterly, the more thoughtful have come to look upon these 
early marriages as among the greatest of evils. One of the obliga- 
tions which members of the Brahmo Somaj took upon them- 
selves was not to marry their daughters till they had reached 
the age of sixteen. 

A few years ago a Maharajah, or prince, was left an orphan, 
and became necessarily a ward of the English Government. His 
property was cared for, and his education — a very careful one — 
seen to by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. This young 
Maharajah of Kuchberge became one of the best known char- 
acters in Calcutta, and was universally liked, both by the natives 
and Europeans. 

It was thought wise for him to travel in Europe, but it was 



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more than probable that if he undertook the journey unmarried 
he wouhl return with a European wife, and this would injure his 
influence over his future subjects. The English Government 
wished him to be married at once, and, on looking around for a 
wife suitable for tiieir ward, they decided to make proposals for 
the hand of the daughter of Keshub Chunder Sen. It was a 
great temptation, a real Indian prince, and called by the English 
the best of them all. It was too great a temptation to be re- 
sisted, and a few months before the young lady had reached her 
sixteenth birthday she was married to the Maharajah, with the 
condition that she was not to be taken to his home till his return 
from Europe. 

Even the Europeans considered the marriage unobjectionable, 
but the members of the Brahmo Somaj moved a court of inquiry 
into the conduct of their minister, and, in spite of his assurance 
that he had received a direct revelation from heaven that this 
marriage was right and proper, a large number withdrew from 
the Brahmo Somaj and organized a reformed Somaj of their own. 

Keshub Chunder Sen answered to Dr. Johnson's definition of 
a remarkable man, for few could pass even the English philoso- 
pher's meagre allowance of time with iiim without feeling that 
he was possessed of extraordinary powers. 

One of the Lessing-like seekers after truth, he seemed to be, 
who would have said with the author of Laocoon, "If God held 
all truth in His right baud, and in His left only the everlasting 
search after truth, I would bow humbly to His left hand and say. 
Father, give ; keep the truth for Thyself alone." His untimely 
death within the last month will probably be a fatal blow to 
the theistic Churcii in the form of the Brahmo Somaj. 



REMINISCENCES. 

By Lindley Murray. 

At the last moment I find it impossible to be with you on the 
21st. I had promised myself great pleasure in meeting the 
members of the Loganian Society, and in addressing a few woi'ds 



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of greeting to them. And now, in lieu of this, what shall I do ? 
Well, I will do what seems to be the next best thing ; I will 
imagine you all assembled in Alumni Hall. I shall be with 
you in spirit, if not in tlie flesh. Tlie scene is vividly before 
me. Called upon to speak, I rise to respond, and these are my 
words to the friends whom I ask to think that they are listening 
to the sound of my voice : 

My friends, my brothers (if you will let me call you so) : As I 
stand before you to-night, a representative (so to speak) of the 
fifty years of the existence of tiiis Society, of which I was one 
of the original members, recollections of the past, the long, long 
past, force themselves upon me with a power that is overwhelm- 
ing. My heart is so oppressed with the conflicting emotions of 
joy and sadness as I draw the contrast between the then and 
now, and recognize the changes which time has impressed upon 
us all, that it is with diificulty I can give expression to my 
feelings. 

Of course, I cannot but feel joy at being once more within the 
walls that sheltered my boyhood, the walls within which I re- 
ceived the moral and intellectual training which was to fit me 
for the battle of life upon which I was about to enter. Oh ! the 
happy days of boyhood ! liow the memory of them, though tliey 
lie buried fifty years in the past — how the memory of them conies 
like a refreshing shower over the worn spirit of the man of ad- 
vanced years. Yes, there is joy in all this. But when I look 
around for my old classmates, and look in vain for so many of 
them, and the reality is borne in upon me that they hfive gone 
to the land from which there is no return, and that their faces 
shall be seen here no more, then, indeed, is this day of joy 
turned into a day of sadness. And when I remember, too, that 
of all the Ijeloved preceptors who were with us when this Society 
was organized, but one is left, how can it be but that sorrow 
should mingle with my rejoicing ? With a heartfelt acknowl- 
edgment of the lasting debt of gratitude we owe to them, I am 
glad to be here to-night to boar ray testimony to the fidelity with 
wiiich they discharged their duties, and to record my conviction 
that they are now reaping the reward of the good. 

Fifty years ! how almost impossible it is to realize it. What 



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a record of wonderful changes and progress is before us in tiie 
history not only of our land, but in that of all other lands. 
Bear with me for a moment while I indulge in a brief retrospect. 

I remember well that Avhile a student at Haverford, on the 
occasion of my return home at one of our vacations, I was a 
passenger in the first train which passed over the second railroad 
built in the United States — that from Bordentown to Perth- 
Amboy. This was, I think, in the year 1834 ; and now, in 
1884, there are one hundred and twenty thousand miles of rail- 
road within our borders. 

Just about this time, too. Professor Morse completed the first 
line of telegraphic communication in the country — from Balti- 
more to Washington — and now under the auspices of that noble (?) 
New York institution, the Western Union Telegraph Company, 
the whole land, from north to south, and east to west, is a com- 
plete network of wires. 

The ocean's bed, too, has been called into service, and beneath 
the surging billows cables have been stretched from continent to 
continent, encircling the entire globe, and bringing us into im- 
mediate communication with its remotest regions. 

Then came the telephone, that marvel of marvels, by the in- 
strumentality of which one can converse with a person at the 
distance of miles, just as though he were sitting at one's side, 
and through which, it is safe to say, that we shall ere long hold 
converse with our friends on the other side of the water. 

During this period, too, our beloved country has passed 
through the throes of a mighty rebellion, out of which, thanks be 
to God, she emerged purer and stronger than ever before — 
stronger, because her strength, which had by some been con- 
sidered problematical, was then demonstrated beyond question, 
and purer, because she was then purged of a sin whose blackness 
darkened the face of the whole land. 

I have referred to some of the more prominent scientific de- 
velopments of the age, because they have been such potent factors 
in modifying the civilization of the world at large, and I think 
it must be evident to every reflecting mind that they are to be 
the potent factors in the rapid dissemination of the Gospel 
among all the peoples of the earth. 



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These developments of science, though material in their na- 
ture, have, if we look at the source from which they come and 
the results to which they tend, a powerful spiritual significance. 

Sometimes when I think seriously (and we are not apt to give 
much serious thought to things which have become so familiar) ; 
but when I think seriously of 'these signs and wonders of the 
times, I am almost inclined to look upon them as the fore- 
shadowing of the approach of the end of all things. 

But I am occupying too much of your time with piy desul- 
tory remarks, and I will bring them to a close by thanking 
you, gentlemen of the Loganian Society, for the kind invitation 
which has given me the opportunity of making them. 

May the Society prosper in the future as it has in the past. 
May the members of to-day, under its auspices and influence, 
grow up into a pure and noble and intellectual manhood, which 
shall make their life in this world a fitting percursor of the life 
which is to come. x\ 

God bless you all, my friends and brothers ! God bless our " ■* 
Alma Mater ! and may she, for generations to come, send forth \ 
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